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From: gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
Subject: Re: Help! Can't reboot machine remotely
Date: 1 Feb 95 21:00:53
Organization: Gene Stark's home system
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Message-ID: <GENE.95Feb1210053@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu>
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In-reply-to: guest@newton.texel.com's message of 31 Jan 1995 11:20:21 -0500

In article <3glo05$ha3@newton.texel.com> guest@newton.texel.com (Guest) writes:

>   I have a Micron Pentium 90 machine running BSD/OS 1.1 from BSDI.
>   Whenever I reboot the machine, it says
>
>   rebooting....'Press reset button if necessary'
>
>   and just sits there.
>
>   I have to manually press the reset button to start reboot.

I have seen this type of problem on a couple of 486 machines recently.
My advice: check the CPU jumpering on the motherboard against the motherboard
documentation.  Seems that machines are assembled with improper jumpering for
the particular CPU chip installed.

							- Gene Stark