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by **Sheldon E. Newhou** » Wed, 18 Dec 1996 04:00:00

I have just gone through my 3rd motherboard. Basically, it seems that swapping
cards in and out and adding ide disks has trashed the BIOS. The motherboard
is an Intel Atlantis, Triton Chipset for P5-133.

Has anyone else had similar problems? Any suggestions about what might be done
to prevent this?

Thanks in advance.

-sen

by **James Youngm** » Wed, 18 Dec 1996 04:00:00

Quote:
>I have just gone through my 3rd motherboard. Basically, it seems that
swapping
>cards in and out and adding ide disks has trashed the BIOS. The motherboard
>is an Intel Atlantis, Triton Chipset for P5-133.

>Has anyone else had similar problems? Any suggestions about what might be
done
>to prevent this?

Were you wearing an earthing strap while doing this?

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by **Nigel A Ranto** » Wed, 18 Dec 1996 04:00:00

> I have just gone through my 3rd motherboard. Basically, it seems that swapping
> cards in and out and adding ide disks has trashed the BIOS. The motherboard
> is an Intel Atlantis, Triton Chipset for P5-133.

> Has anyone else had similar problems? Any suggestions about what might be done
> to prevent this?

Wow! Your THIRD? What do you do...eat them? (sorry, sorry, couldn't
resist bringing my greandmother's favourite phrase out of the cupboard)

How can swapping cards in and out trash a board? How can adding hard
drives trash a board? Unless you are changing things <<all the time>>
then I have no idea why they're getting trashed, I'd just like to know
how you're treating them.

Erm, also, whats your definition of trashed?

Nige

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by **Mats Andtbac** » Thu, 19 Dec 1996 04:00:00

>>I have just gone through my 3rd motherboard. Basically, it seems
>>that swapping cards in and out and adding ide disks has trashed the
>>BIOS. The motherboard is an Intel Atlantis, Triton Chipset for
>>P5-133.
>Wow! Your THIRD? What do you do...eat them?

i've gone through... hold on... five? seven? something like that.
'course, the first one was an 8088. :-)

and i've never heard of swapping hardware destroying the BIOS. new
hardware not working with old BIOSes, yes, got bitten by that one
first time back in 286 days; old EPROM BIOSes giving up the ghost,
i've heard second-hand stories of, motherboards being plain broken
such that the BIOS works but nothing else, happened to me. but not
hardware changes destroying software in nonvolatile memory.

and i've heard Bad Things about Intel motherboards, like everybody
else has - i'd never touch them myself, too name-brand. but not a BIOS
going gradually bad like that, no.
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like their father or their dog just died..."
- Leonard Cohen

by **Friedhelm Mehne** » Fri, 20 Dec 1996 04:00:00

> I have just gone through my 3rd motherboard. Basically, it seems that swapping
> cards in and out and adding ide disks has trashed the BIOS. The motherboard
> is an Intel Atlantis, Triton Chipset for P5-133.

Perhaps switching off your computer before swapping boards helps ? :-)
Sorry, couldn't resist.

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