[ltp] TP 760 Suspends on boot

[Robert Munro]

Victor Wagner wrote:

>On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Tino Keitel wrote:
>
>>>At least once during diskette boot it suspended at the boot prompt.
>>>
>>OK, now we can be quiet shure that it is a hardware problem and not a linux
>>kernel/sortware issue.
>>
>
>I suspect that it is rather microcode problem. But I cannot find
>information how to reset microcode completely in Hardware Maintainance
>manual. They reccomend to replace some expansive FRU's in this case.
>Which is quite understandable. I suppose there would be reason to claim
>that warranty is void and make user to pay for this FRU's, so it is more
>profitable for IBM to replace parts, than to provide instructions to fix
>this problem.
>
This started after you flashed a newer BIOS, right?  Did you backup the 
old BIOS?
Was there a problem you had that the newer BIOS fixes?  If not, why 
upgrade to it?
You can simply reflash the previous BIOS image and avoid all the 
firmware issues.

Regards,
Robert



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