On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 12:34, The Other wrote:
> Greetings LX,
>
> I'm running a circa 1998 system with Mandrake 9.1 (in the process
> of building LFS {Linux From Scratch} 5.0) on the following hardware:
>
> Asus P2B AGP motherboard with the Intel 440BX chipset and Award BIOS
> (IIRC, I know it's not a Phoenix BIOS)
> Intel Pentium-II MMX 350-MHz cpu
> Matrox G100 AGP video card
>
> I've been rock-solid since turning off the ROM Shadowing. Prior to
> that, 3/4 of a year with erratic errors and when I had to do a
> reinstall of Mandrake 9.1 because of file system corruption, it
> would take over 100 attempts to get through the loading software
> phase of the install, with a chance to bomb on the LILO setup as
> well. I'm a patient guy, but this was getting ridiculous. It's
> also a testimony of my resolve to not use Windows on the Internet.
> :) Also, others on this list may remember my cries for help during
> 2003.
>
> If there's another problem causing this problem besides ROM
> Shadowing, I'd love to hear what the alternative solution is. Just
> in case you're right and I haven't solved my problem.
>
> Thanks,
> The Other
The key word above that caught my eye above was, "Matrox". As a matter
of fact, for a short while I had a Matrox in the 1990's, and I remember
some sort of video shadowing anomalies with it.
Would you do me a flavor? In the interests of Science? To test this
theory of mine, that this is perhaps germane to the video card itself,
would you turn on system bios shadowing, but leave video shadowing off,
and see if your system remains stable. I'm curious.
If in fact you've already tried this, just let me know. Otherwise, I'm
all ears.
LX
P.S. Phoenix Bioses suck.
P.P.S Have you flashed your mainboard to the latest bios available for
it from Asus.
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