Re: PC164--No Video

[axp amazing ch (Christoph Dworzak)]

Hi

On Dec 2 Secret Asian Man (cchen@reed.edu) wrote:

> I just finished building my PC164 system with a Millennium G200 and Intel
> Ether Express Pro 100 and Tekram 390F card and it comes up into ARC just
> fine. I'm booting a custom-built 2.2.13 kernel with minimal support (SCSI,
> Ethernet, FP completion) and it runs fine for a few hours, but then
> suddenly zonks out. The monitor says "no signal" and the reset button
> doesn't do any good. The ethernet LEDs go out.
[..]

Your describtion sounds familiar to me. My PC164 acted the same.
It would sometimes run for a week, other times it was just dead
until i found out that that it acts differently when i bend the
motherboard slightly.

In my case it was a hardware problem. One of the chips between
CPU and Powerconnector (cache? buffer?) hat a bad conntact.

I didn't find it myself. A friendly digital worker found and
fixed it (in his spare time). Since then it worked like a
champ (until i installed rh6.0, but that's another story...)

bye
 dworz