Hi Rick, On Sunday 01 October 2006 17:14, Rick Glazier Inscribed Thus: > You seem to have it narrowed down to the MB, so what is different? > What are the MB model & revision, -- and BIOS revision numbers? > Are they the exact same MB revision? Same BIOS version?
As it happens both machines, the faulty one and the good one, belong to the same client ! I built five of these machines for them, a little over a year ago. It was just convenient to pull the cpu from the adjacent machine while on site. Now they are both in the workshop ! > Do both (or all) MBs ID the CPU chipset correctly? (When you get that > far.) I had one suddenly NOT recognize the CPU after about two years > of use and NO changes (to the CPU) in that time. > > Does the BIOS have a setting (buried deep) for resetting the > configuration data? NOT anything to do with the HDs, OR reset to > defaults, safe, or optimized, this is somewhere else on mine. > I use Phoinx/Award v6. (I know them better.) I can check that ! As far as I am aware all these machines have the same mainboard revision and bios ! > I have three VERY similar boards that are all different engineering > revisions of the same model number. This makes their BIOS flashs > different. So basically, they are like apples and oranges. ;-) > I had to give this box a number of my own to keep them separate... > (#7)... > > I had to fight a BIOS recently to recognize switching in and out HDs, > of all things... AND the BIOS was set to go find them and configure > them automatically... They were all set to cable select, could and do > use that, and the cable is 80 wire and in good condition. They were > different brands. I'm thinking they were "too close" to each other, > slipped through the detection cracks, and then could not be used > since it was not "quite right"... This has happened to me more INSIDE > Windows with slight hardware changes that were not detected at some > level, so I guess that just happened in a BIOS too... (Magic...) > > I had to tell the MB to go and find ALL the hardware, and it worked > like a charm... Yes I have seen that issue as well ! Auto detect or 504Mb hard drive, even if you put in the right settings. > Try to give the list the info in the first to paragraphs, Thanks. > Links from my BIOS maker lead me to a BIOS detection program that > will extract that info for you if you don't want to do the heavy > lifting yourself... http://www.esupport.com/biosagent/index.cfm > > Rick Glazier > > From: "Gaffer" > > > > Scenario:- Two machines, Identical mainboards, one with a Celeron > > 800 and the other with a Celeron 1100. Machine with 1100 cpu > > simply quits ! No post, nothing. I replace the cpu from the other > > machine (800 cpu) Machine now boots and runs fine ! > > > > Ok I pull a Celeron 1100 from another (Third) machine, stick it in > > ! No boot !! > > > > I put the original Celeron 1100 in the machine I borrowed the 800 > > from !! It boots and works fine. I double checked by putting the > > second 1100 cpu in and that works fine too !! > > > > I am at a loss as to what the problem could be ! It has got to be > > the mainboard, but what ! I must be doing something > > silly............ But I haven't a clue what. Any Ideas ? Best Regards: Derrick. Pontefract Linux Users Group. plug at play-net.co.uk -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
