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Re: AHA1542CF suddenly stopped working! Help!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (redhat@davelee.student.Princeton.E)
Fri Feb 6 20:27:30 1998
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:18:13 -0500 (EST)
From: <redhat@davelee.student.Princeton.EDU>
To: Jay Vassos-Libove <libove@felines.org>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980206074722.664A-100000@panther.felines.org>
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> A last question that comes to mind: At this point, what would you do?
> Use the board and avoid IRQ 11? Replace it? (I'm assuming here that the
> motherboard, not the CPU, failed. If the CPU is going bad, I want to dump
> it before it corrupts data).
>
I'd just keep using the board while avoiding the use of IRQ 11.
Sometime this summer when the price on Pentium II's go through the floor,
I'd pick up a cheap PII motherboard and CPU and replace the Pentium.
Seeing as how Pentium and PII motherboards cost more or less the same,
it wouldn't be worth it to replace your current motherboard, unless it's
still under warrantee. (Believe it or not, my P133 is still under