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Date:	Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:40:22 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Actiontec modem setup

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In <20040208083947.12580.qmail@joan.linkline.com>, on 02/08/04
at 12:39 AM, waynec@linkline.com said:

>Maybe it's just too late at night: ....what's "HBA"?

Host Bus Adapter.

>Motherboard??? More likely the scsi adapter or cable, wouldn't you think?

Probably. However, I learned long along ago to assume as little as
possible when troubleshooting. Everything is on the list until it is
proven not to be the problem.

> The PCI NIC card uses PCI and the same IRQ 11 and continues to work
>fine. But it just seems too much of a coincidence that this all started
>happening within a couple of days of replacing an ide cdrom with a scsi
>cdrw & 2940U adapter, and adding a modem (which hasn't yet worked).

Well, have you pulled both the modem to the cdrom? Does that change the
error conditions?

>If it's hardware (and I agree it must be hardware or a bad bios setting)
>I keep coming back to the scsi cable as the common hardware piece that
>could be failing; possibly the PCI slot or something on the scsi
>adapter, but the scsi adapter seems to interface to the machine just
>fine. Right now I am booted under WinXP and the second scsi drive
>(address 6) is working fine.

How is this? Unless I misunderstood your prior explanations, the NSYNC
error is occurring when the SCSI BIOS is scanning the drives. Are you
saying WinXP is insensitive to this error?

>Low performance settings? I'm lost again. And what would it be evidence
>of?

Read the MB manual. Every MB BIOS is know has two sets of options, BIOS
and SETUP. Once of these will be more conservative and can be useful for
troubleshooting.

>I'll mount a search for the bios manual, seems like I saw it on a cdrom
>somewhere when I got this machine.

Good idea. :-) You can probably download it from the MB manufacturter's
web site too.

Regards,

Steven

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