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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:20:17 -0400
From: John Jasen <jjasen1@umbc.edu>
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To: Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@fprintf.net>
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Subject: Re: Tyan S2462 reboot problems
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On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:

> No, I doubt this has anything to do with Linux.   I have a S2460 (which his
> corrected post says he has), which does not power down under linux, and
> *never* warm boots cleanly.  It does power down under windows, so I assume
> ACPI powerdown works and APM does not.  I have gone under the assumption that
> a BIOS upgrade will fix this, but that involves putting a floppy into the box,
> so I haven't done it yet.  The warm boot problems consist of either a hang
> after POST (but before bootloader, OS irrelevent), or really bad video
> corruption.  I don't know if it boot with the video corruption, I've never let
> it try.

I did update to the new BIOS for the 246x (I can never keep them straight
either), and that did help some with the halt and reboot problems I was
having.


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