"Wayne Chirnside" wrote to "Mike Ross" (29 Oct 02  19:30:00)
 --- on the topic of "thinking about a new MB"

 WC> Just guessing but maybe the CMOS has the video ID'ed in it
 WC> as it has on both my systems here and when that card goes missing for
 WC> a  moment or moments it gets lost and requires you reset CMOS?
 WC> This may even have been designed in as a nudge to reset CMOS when
 WC> swapping different video cards maybe?

It seems like a very logical explanation. There must be some ID sensing
lines going from the MB support LSI (cmos) to the PCI sockets. I'll have
a look at a listing of the PCI socket pinout to confirm it.

 Mike
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... CMOS: Commonly Misunderstood Option Switches

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