On Thursday 29 June 2006 23:17, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 19:09 -0400, A LeDonne wrote: > > On 6/29/06, Mark Jarvis wrote: > > > Some time ago, in a moment of ill-advised penny pinching I bought one > > > of Fry's ECS motherboard & AMD cpu specials. (I prefer AMD cpus, it's > > > the cheapo mobo that has caused me the problems I've had.) I like to > > > have a Smart Boot Manager (SBM) diskette around as an "insurance > > > policy" way to boot into the various operating systems on my box. After > > > installing the new motherboard, I found that although it would boot > > > from an old DOS diskette, it wouldn't boot from an SBM diskette. I > > > cussed mildly & accepted it. Then Tuesday, for some reason I tried > > > again--whaddaya know--it worked! I figured that I must have just had a > > > couple of bum diskettes when I tried before. Then I tried last night > > > with four (4) known good SBM diskettes--including the one that had > > > worked on Tuesday. No dice. I even burned a couple of new diskettes > > > using the SBM on the Ubuntu CD. Still no dice. If that stupid board had > > > NEVER booted from an SBM diskette, I'd just live with it, but the fact > > > that it did boot correctly ONE TIME has me baffled. > > > > > > Anyone got any ideas? > > > > > > -mj- > > > > You did say diskette... wiht intermittent floppy failure I would > > replace the drive and the cable. My time is worth the $20 to replace > > first as a highly invasive troubleshooting technique. > > ---- > given the reliability factor of both floppy disks and floppy disk > drives, that's reasonably sage advice except for the one other bit > advice - don't do floppies. > > Craig > I avoid using floppys myself if it's at all possible. When I absolutely have to use one, I always run a floppy drive cleaner disk through the drive first to clean out the dust. FWIW, I've run several different AMD/ECS combos (ECS makes PC Chips also) and have had very few problems with them. Stu --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss