I think that I am happier with QQ. One system is still going strong
with 11 days of uptime. On the second system that crashed, I have
restarted it and cleared the cmos.
The second system exhibited a booting issue after being flashed to qq in
which it would start, but no video. I had this problem before and
didn't think much of it since a cold boot gets around the problem.
However since it eventually sort of locked up - (actually more like
limped along), I decided to try to fix the boot problem by manually
clearing the CMOS, a technique which has worked for me in the past.
Yes, I know what you are going to say, the flash process automatically
invalidates the CMOS, so manually clearing it shouldn't make much of a
difference. But it seems to.
The boot problem is gone and I am now 2.5 days and still going with 2
seti's and a screensaver at a minimum.
I would be curious to know if everyone who has flashed to QQ
successfully also cleared the cmos? On my system that has yet to fail
under QQ, I did not; which suggests that this might be a best practice
but not mandatory one.
I think the previous version of the flashing instructions called for
this step, but I don't recall if the new one (based on the abitfae
batch) does?
Only time will tell. But I think it is very clear that the reliability
issue rests squarely in abit's bios.
Mike
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hal Burgiss [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 8:28 PM
>To: Discussion List for Linux on Abit Motherboards
>Subject: Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Best BP6 BIOS
>
>
>Back to the BIOS question that someone asked. So far one vote for NJ
>and one for QQ. Anyone else happy with QQ? Probably a little early yet
>to say for sure, but I have run out of straws to grasp and I need a
>little hope.
>
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>Hal B
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