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Don Taylor wrote:
> David Maynard <dNOTmayn@ev1.net> writes:
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>>Don Taylor wrote:
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>>>I have one system with an ECS K7S5A motherboard, not having a reputation
>>>for being the best board in the world. Every now and then after a boot
>>>the mouse, and even once the keyboard, are lifeless. I finally found I
>>>can breathe life back into them if I unplug the dead frog for fifteen
>>>seconds and then plug it back in. Has always worked and I've done this
>>>lots of times. Never have found anything I can do to make this go away.
>>>I presume this is some sort of timing issue during boot somewhere.
>
>
>>Interesting. I've never had the mouse or keyboard come up dead but the
>>stupid sound does, and rather often.
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> I had the same problem you do.
Glad to hear that, in a bizarre sort of way. At least I know I'm not the
only one.
> I finally gave up on the embedded sound,
> disabled it in the bios, put in a sound card...
I may eventually do that but I'm getting a perverse sense of satisfaction
cursing at it. Plus, I'm using the on-board modem, which goes out with the
sound too, of course.
> and then found that the
> collection of ECS drivers appeared to not have been tested with the
> embedded sound disabled,
Figures.
Speaking of their software drivers, when the sound fails disabling and then
re-enabling it in device manager restore sound, except they default the
stupid mixer to full volume on all sliders and since mine is also fed into
a stereo amp/sound system that can be quite a thrill.
> and I just ignore the error that gives me now.
>
> But, the board has been reliably running Mathematica jobs for more than
> a year so I can't complain about that.
I take it you haven't been graced by the infamous "Invalid CMOS Checksum"
bug yet.