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In article <833406694snz@longley.demon.co.uk>
           David@longley.demon.co.uk "David Longley" writes:

> I have had frequent problems with plug and play IRQ etc especially with
> PCI slots on my Endeavour Board. It's not just this one either, it's been
> a feature of all 4 I have set up.
> 
> Often it's just the video card. Switch on and no output. Sometimes this
> clears by setting DIP 4 to on to clear NVRAM, but not always. 
> 
> Today, I was adding a Miro DC20 PCI card. 
> 
> System
> 
> ISA 1 - - Digital Turbo 3 network card (IRQ 10)
> ISA 2 - - empty
> ISA 3 - - empty
> PCI 1 - - Miro DC20 (IRQ 9)
> PCI 2 - - Matrox Millenium Video
> PCI 3 - - empty
> PCI 4 - - Adaptec AHA 2940 SCSI (IRQ 11) 
> 
> Audio - - IRQ 5
> 
> Problems started with the Miro grabbing INT 9. I was a bit concerned and
> rebooted to enter setup. I set IRQ 9 to be available to ISA. The Miro
> still grabbed it and I then lost the Miro driver when I went into
> PREMIERE LE.
> 
> Now the system won't boot at all. I have pulled out the RAM, pulled all
> the cards, power leads and them mains lead out. Re-assembling it, I do
> not get a signal out to the monitor.
> 
> I've even taken the battery out hoping that will clear whatever is in
> whatever RAM is on the board.
> 
> Can anyone explain why this happens? (and it has happened to others too).
> 
> Can anyone suggest what to do when this does happen as it's pretty soul
> destroying.
> 
> 
> 
My copy of the latest BIOS upgrade was corrupt!!. All was restored to
normal after I used the previous BIOS upgrade. It is a pain that the
BIOS can get corrupted so easily on these boards though....

Is the version 5 corrupted at intel.com?
-- 
David LOngley