"Roy J. Tellason" wrote to "MIKE ROSS" (29 Oct 02  20:06:54)
 --- on the topic of "thinking about a new MB"

 MR> I was guessing it had something to do with PnP programming on the
 MR> card itself being lost and that the PCI buss has a line running to
 MR> the cmos supply? Alternatively maybe the PCI slots set an ID bit in
 MR> a flipflop of the MB support LSI and pulling out the card clears it
 MR> telling it to check for new equipment at the next bootup?

 RJT> Beats me.  This is getting into stuff that I'm still pretty fuzzy
 RJT> about...

Just had a look at the PCI/PCMCIA pinouts and FYI there are indeed 2
card ID lines, ID1 and ID2. That solves the mystery for me, thank you!
Pulling out the card does reset some bits in the MB support LSI (cmos).
Then the POST throws the clock error to force checking the settings.
Maybe it's just this particular bios that behaves this way. I'll have to
see if its the same on another machine...

 Mike
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