Re: Question on Vortex/Boomerang NICs

Tom Eastep (eastep@loc1.tandem.com)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 07:36:41 -0700

Shawn Leas wrote:
>
> I have been having mysterious lockups related to my 3c59x. One fine day,
> my machine locked HARD when I tried to start X. I mean no magic SysReq
> key, nothing. Didn't respond to pings, it was wedged.

Do you happen to have a Riva128-based video card? These cards don't like sharing
an IRQ and will exhibit the behavior that you describe.

-Tom

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Tom Eastep	
COMPAQ Computer Corporation
Enterprise Computing Group
Tandem Division
tom.eastep@compaq.com


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