On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Brian Stephenson wrote:
> Just out of curiosity while I was testing I noticed the cpu reseting
> back to start of bios every so many seconds (5 or so) is this the
> watchdog timer in action?? it must be dissabled further on someware.
this is the infamous 5 second reset. You get this on matsonic. We disable
it in linuxbios at the last minute, so that if linuxbios hangs for some
reason (which I occasionally saw on matsonics) then it will simply
restart.
> I wonder if there is any initialisation manuals availiable for the
> SiS630 becuase the info in the data sheet does not describe any
> procedures only register descriptions
send me a DoC image.
ron
