Re: Tyan S2462 reboot problems

[Nicholas Berry]

What display adapter are you using? BIOS's earlier than 1.04 screwed up royally with ATI Radeon 8500/7500 cards - actually, so does 1.04, but not as much. I've also noticed that Radeon + Adaptec 39160 corrupts video where without the Adaptec it doesn't. Strange.

Nik

(This is on the 2460, not 2462)

>>> Daniel Gryniewicz <[e-mail]> 04/09/02 04:14PM >>>
> Hi.

> No, I doubt this has anything to do with Linux.   I have a S2460 (which his
> corrected post says he has), which does not power down under linux, and
> *never* warm boots cleanly.  It does power down under windows, so I assume
> ACPI powerdown works and APM does not.  I have gone under the assumption that
> a BIOS upgrade will fix this, but that involves putting a floppy into the box,
> so I haven't done it yet.  The warm boot problems consist of either a hang
> after POST (but before bootloader, OS irrelevent), or really bad video
> corruption.  I don't know if it boot with the video corruption, I've never let
> it try.

> Daniel