Yep, I turned the bios every which way but loose ..from the defaults to weird combinations of settings. I have an A7V Asus motherboard that I've had since Jan 2001. I hadn't changed the settings between 7.3, 8.0 or even 8.1. I hadn't gone into the bios even since I bought the mb back in '01. :) Hi: I was in the process of telling all about my random lock-ups and the BIOS change on my MSI KT3 ULTRA2 MOBO I made, APM to disabled, ACPI to auto; and
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 October 2002 04:01, Ben Rosenberg wrote: the GRUB kernel line changes APM to off and ACPI to off and how the system had been stable for 18 hours, and how I felt the problem was probably in the ACPI or APM stuff when the system froze. And with that freeze went a good unproven theroy. Lets hope this goes away soon with some update. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed SuSE-Linux 8.1 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 Kernel version 2.4.19-4GB Current Linux uptime: 4 days 2 hours minutes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9qceS8irP9FWaA+cRAo/ZAJwPHMJJDcO4vuGjJKhEcAk5HF8logCeILU1 FU60FWprzWk964aZ+VzKSpw= =KGgU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----