"Maurice Batey" <maurice@bcs.removethis.org.uk> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.08.29.18.25.01.697187@bcs.removethis .org.uk...
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:24:39 -0500, Ken Maltby wrote:
>
>> startup related software/OS drivers.
>
> In the BIOS? Wouldn't know where to start looking.
>
> Problem is not operating system related, as one lockup occurred during
> entry
> of BIOS password.
>
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> Maurice
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Well you could start with any BIOS startup options
like "Wake on LAN", perhaps other power management
settings, as well.

Placing a single or unrepeated/unrepeatable occurrence
into the differential should be as an unproved variable.
The OS can apply hardware drivers that can effect
firmware that can effect or be used by the BIOS. Not
to mention the possibility of effecting the BIOS itself.

Look, you can totally ignore my post, no skin off my
nose. I was just relating what I found to be the cause
in a particularly aggravating and counter to routine
troubleshooting experience, that involved a startup
problem. I ran through 3 MB and 3 Power Supplies
as well as 2 different Antec cases (and no case) and
only stumbled across the keyboard connection by
accident.

Luck;
Ken