David Graser wrote:


>>On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 03:57:39 +1000, Mike O'Connor wrote:
>>
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>Had a funny occurrence here yesterday [Thursday-local]. On rebooting 
>>>after swapping drawer-based HDDs, the 20GB Maxtor on post-POST display 
>>>screen showed up as normal except for the model number [2B0....]
>>>having appended to it " ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ....", and
showing up as having 89GB capacity! Naturally it wouldn't boot to IBM Boot
Manager. The ATX machine has an MS-6154VA motherboard [MSI] with Celeron
566 and Award 4.51G BIOS.
>>>Reset it twice with same result, and it was only after powering
off the UPS, and powering up again that it recovered its identity! I guess
if I'd been a Windows luser, it would have been a case of take it back to
the shop!
>>>
>Hi Mike and others
>
>I have something similar happen to me when I dual boot between
>Windows XP and eCS 1.2.  However, the affected piece of hardware is
>either my network card or my router, not sure which.  I can boot up
>into eCS and access the internet with no problem.  However, if I boot
>to WindowsXP and then boot back to eCS, I can't assess the internet. 
>This happens everytime I boot reboot from WindowsXP to eCS.  It NEVER
>happens when I boot from eCS to WindowsXP.
>
>What I have to do is this.  When leaving Windows, I have to power off
>the computer and then turn off my surge surpressors.  Just powering
>off the computer does not solve the problem.
>  
>
Hi David,
I don't experience that at all here,  with NIC or ADSL Gateway/Router 
[wired!], using W2K Pro -- mind you I unplug the ADSL line from the 
Linksys before firing up Windoze, for security reasons!

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Regards,
Mike

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