xxxxx@Seagate.com said:
I don’t have a conclusive answer, though I’ve seen that problem with
my own Gx150.
DELL BIOSes have some issues, what with bridges that are involved on the
system board. I’ve seen them screw up certain arrangements of PCI boards.
I’ve tried in the past to report these bugs, but it’s pretty hopeless.
Some DELL systems cannot run NT simply because NT relies on the BIOS to
arrange PCI devices, and the BIOS is hopeless.
A shuffling of boards may cause a system to work because of the structure
of memory regions that individual boards have, thus affecting bridge
region configurations. It’s hard to say as various models have different
system boards and bridge arrangements. Also, there may be a BIOS update
for a particular system that fixes some problems.
I always specifically discouraged customers buying DELL computers for
this sort of issue. They’ve always been a support nightmare for us,
and DELL support has been nothing but rude and condescending when we
tried to point these issues out to them.
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