Re: VIA KT133A Northbridge bug reported

From: Joseph Carter (knghtbrd@debian.org)
Date: Tue May 29 2001 - 14:57:20 EST

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:56:15PM +0200, Holger Lubitz wrote:
> Translation: "As Stephan Schwolow from MSI Germany told Chip Online, the
> problem with the VIA northbridge can be identified by a warm start from
> DOS or a Windows reboot: If the screen stays black, the chip has an
> error."
>
> As far as I understand it, the problem is only affecting "warm reboots".
> And I couldn't care less about warm reboots - my machines usually run
> 24/7 :)

I have seen this problem sometimes. I don't read German though - does the
page mention a fix?

My machines usually run 24/7 too, but there's this little think called DRI
which for some people works really nicely. Some of us are not as lucky
though and in the meantime have problems with rebooting our machines. It
seems that an ATX power off is not sufficient to get things going again,
power must be cut to the main supply for a few seconds first. Thankfully
my PSU has a real switch. 

-- 
Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>                Free software developer

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