Via chipset KT133 and system instability

[Net Llama!]

On 12/23/02 19:42, Richard Ebling wrote:
>   I'm running an Duron 700 on one, and it has been weird to boot up for
> awhile--about half the time it'll just hang on boot.  My clue is that if
> the POST beep sounds before the floppy seek, it'll start up.  If not, it
> hangs in limbo forever.  Opening the case and handwaving seems to be
> effective about half the time, as does reseating the video card, RAM, or
> wiggling the bundle of wires that comes out of the power supply.
> (and yes, I've looked inside the p/s without discovering any visible
> suspects).
> 
>   I have yet to find the best dma/IDE/VIA kernel configuration for this.
> However a plain out-of-the-box install of SuSE 8.1 seems to run a bit
> better than my average efforts.

Have you tried resetting the BIOS to the defaults?

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