Re: [aclug-L] Linux on store shelves

[Carl D Cravens <raven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Jeffrey L. Hansen wrote:

> new flagship.  The bottom line to the dilemma is I simply took one card out
> and put the other one in its place but couldn't get the software to load
> nor get the card to work.  I had to move it to another slot.  Explain to
> me, if you dare why that was necessary when I had another card - a sound
> blaster, no less - in the same slot.  The best I can figure is that even
> though I went through the registry and system files line by line and ripped
> out all vestiges of sound anything and PCI128 anything it still though I
> had another sound card in the system.  I'll never defend Win95

This isn't necessarily a Win95 thing... I've experienced this way back
with ISA cards and DOS 3.1.  Hardware isn't always the perfect thing we
tend to think of it as.  

I've had many instances of machines that wouldn't even boot until you
moved the video or IO card to a different slot.  Minor hardware
incompatibilities is all it is.  (And it's no wonder, with motherboards
built by everybody and his brother, and cards built by a hundred other
manufacturers, all using chips from who-knows-where.)

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Carl (raven@xxxxxxxxxxx)

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