[NBLUG/talk] [CPLUG] Weirdness: BIOS POST lockups

[Sean]

One other possibility I forgot to mention.

I've seen POST problems caused by IDE devices. It may be a shot in the
dark, but is fairly easy to do. Unplug all IDE devices, including the
hard drive and floppy, and see if it helps improve the successful POST
frequency. If it does, plug things back in one at a time until the
problem re-occurs and consider replacing the offending device. Make
sure that you don't have any CD-Rom drives set as masters. I've seen
this cause many problems because the CD-Rom can't quite seem to handle
controlling the data traffic.

I know that GRUB may not be happy with removing IDE devices and hang,
so it may be annoying during this process.