Folk, I have a pair of IBM NetVistas, Types 6578-RAU and RBU.
Debian Woody installed on S/N 78-T1XMN and ran for about a year with no difficulty. Then it started to reboot spontaneously. The operational intervals became shorter until it was unusable. When it is fired up now, the display is OK initially and before the login prompt appears, degenerates to what might be called flak. With an AGP video card installed, bootup hangs at a kernel panic with a complaint about an interrupt exception. The Woody installer CD works on S/N 78-T1XFV until Checking 'hlt' instruction... There it hangs. The installation process on the other machine didn't have this problem. Also, this machine does not respond to the power switch on the front panel. According to the ohmeter, the switch is OK. I've reinstalled the BIOS code and reset the "boot block" on each machine to no avail. Does anyone have experience with similar NetVistas? Do these machines have marginal power supplies or some other design fault which causes problems? Any other ideas? Thanks, ... Peter E. http://carnot.yi.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
