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From: brennan@merk.UUCP (Rich Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Disk controllers and weird booting rituals.
Summary: usenet 2, brennan 0
Message-ID: <373@merk.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 89 17:50:32 GMT
References: <372@merk.UUCP> <423@ispi.UUCP> <1466@igloo.UUCP>
Reply-To: brennan@merk.UUCP (Rich Brennan)
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Organization: Technology Partners, Inc.
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In article <1466@igloo.UUCP> jjw@igloo.UUCP (John Welch) writes:
>	We had a similar problem with some 386 motherboards at work - they
>would NOT boot unless ctrl-alt-delete was pressed. It *WAS* a BIOS bug,
>not the fault of the disk controller. I think we had American Megatrends
>bios, but I cannot say just what the rev level was.
[...]
>==========================================================================
>  John Welch                                <backbone>!killer!jjw@igloo


  Bingo, AMI BIOS here. I guess I call Proteus tech support for new chips...
Thanks a LOT; I knew I couldn't be that crazy.


Rrrrich.
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...!{uunet,linus!alliant}!merk!root			Rich Brennan