I have one customer with an older computer (single-core Intel, 933 MHz, pretty old Asus motherboard) who showed me how his Windows XP would boot and then lock up nastily. No BSODs. I noticed the shiny new Logitech USB keyboard was connected to the PS/2 keyboard port with a USB-to-PS2 adapter but the PS2 connection was actually loose. I tossed the adapter and plugged the keyboard directly into a USB port and the lock ups vanished from that point forward.
Poorly connected hardware can cause a lot of problems.
Bob Cochran
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Oct 26, 2008, Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
Has anyone found the F10 has done something nasty to their BIOS?
I've had something like that happen to me instaling the Beta, and also installing some earlier release.
Actually, I found the CMOS battery in that desktop needed replacing. I guess repeated re-booting while installing F-10 might have made the CMOS battery woozy.