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Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 8:23 AM
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Subject: Re: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.
While this has (mostly) gone away
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Atkielski
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 9:28 PM
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Subject: Re: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.
bsdnooby writes:
When I try
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
Generally the MO in the past has been to use the el-cheapo-ist components
possible, then when the OEM vendors discover some hardware bug or other
shortfall, they have Microsoft help them to write around the problems
with various patches, which are included in the OEM
First of all HP purchased Compaq a while ago, and when the sale was
completed they dumped the Netserver line, servers from them are
now HP Proliants. (Proliant was the Compaq line)
Are they as good as their HP and Compaq predecessors?
We recently had a Proliant DL380 for testing, seemed
Fabian Anklam writes:
We recently had a Proliant DL380 for testing, seemed like solid
hardware, literally, the server management CD for preparing the system
for different flavors of OSes just worked as it was supposed to ...
What preparation is required? Can't you just wipe the disk and
Hi,
When I try to install FreeBSD, my brand new HP Pavilion laptop turns
itself off. It does not matter if I use 4.x or 5.x, CD or floppies.
There is no error log since it just shuts off after I choose to load a
kernel. I have tried loading with ACPI off, and it does not help. I
believe I
bsdnooby writes:
When I try to install FreeBSD, my brand new HP Pavilion laptop turns
itself off.
While it's rather late for me to make this observation, I find that
computers from big-name vendors tend to show a great deal of
interdependence between the pre-installed OS and the hardware. The
