[TriLUG] Funky Hardware Problem

[William Sutton]

just pulling something out of you-know-where, but are you getting Windows 
IRQ conflicts or something?  I'd say it's Windows, not hardware, if Linux 
works fine.

-- 
William Sutton


On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Brian Henning wrote:

> Merry Christmas, everyone!
>    Got a sort of hardware issue (I think) going on here..  But it's got me  
> stymied because it manifests in Windows but not in Linux.  Here's the  
> background:
> 
> About a week ago, my primary HD died (Good ol' IBM DeathStar...developed  
> corrupt sectors) and Windows stopped booting.  So I replaced the drive  
> last night and reloaded Windows once...oops, drive letters assigned really  
> stupidly (primary was K:..)...twice, okay, drive letters are what I want,  
> load video drivers---lockup.  Hard.  Okay, this is pre-SP2 media, so  
> reload a third time and go straight for SP2...which includes released  
> drivers for my video cards (both nVidia GeForce cards, one AGP, one PCI,  
> have worked together flawlessly thus far)...set my resolution on my  
> primary display, activate the secondary...lockup.  Hard.  Back to ground  
> zero, where Windows won't finish booting at all.
> 
> And yet, Linux still continues to run both my heads concurrently with  
> absolutely no issues whatsoever.
> 
> I'm thinking maybe it's possible that I jostled the secondary video card  
> when I was replacing the HD (it's rather tight inside my case), but it  
> strikes me so odd that it would only affect one OS and not another.  So am  
> I nuts here?  I'm going to try reseating all my PCI cards later today, but  
> does anyone read this and go "oh yeah, I know what is causing that..."?
> 
> Thanks a ton!
> ~Brian
> 
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