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- From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
- Subject: Re: Problems with CMOS after using Linux on my 486
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- References: <96973@netnews.upenn.edu> <BxIyzz.38z@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1992Nov12.230055.28527@sfu.ca>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:00:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.230055.28527@sfu.ca> rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes:
- >Anyway, on my system, CAD/reboot works only about 30% of the time.
- >It hangs the machine the other 70%. On a couple of friends' systems,
- >it wipes the CMOS. Now they shut down linux by just doing a couple of
- >syncs turning off the power.
- >
- >I am told that this behavior happens only with AMI bios. Don't know
- >why. Is there any chance there will ever be a fix for this? Linux
- >has had this 'bug' (if you can call it that) since the CAD code was
- >introduced.
-
- All I know is that I have the AMI bios, and I have this problem.
- I do get my CMOS wiped on occasion (although this has not happened lately),
- and the reboot command does only work about 50% of the time for me, or so it
- seems, I have not looked into this at all.
-
- -Eric
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- Eric Youngdale
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