Some years ago, one of the "major" motherboard manufacturers (who also supplies OEM's), 
 quietly recalled and replaced a series of bad motherboards that were having the 
same issue.  (there was more than one actually)  Those of us who knew it wasn't normal 
had our, and our customers boards replaced.  (bad chips)  For those who didn't know 
any better, they just went right on using them.  Wasn't critical, just caused the 
BIOS to run the discovery process everytime it booted.

It isn't actually normal, but the average consumer wouldn't know if the machine still 
boots and seems to run normally.  There was also some sloppy designs back then that 
didn't help.  If you see it on today's boards, you know you do have a problem somewhere 
in the hardware.  I've had to send some boards back for replacement when it was evident 
that the error wasn't caused by any external hardware.  Just my experience.. 

Contrary to popular belief, all motherboards are NOT tested before leaving the factory 
and individual parts are only spot/batch tested.







On Friday, February 1, 2008 at 12:25 pm, Aidan Jenkins wrote:

>No offence to you guys, but I think gewg is right on this one. My old PC used to 

>do that every time it was booted up and it had a series of different OSs on it. 
My 

>computer now has also had a series of OSs and has never done it (as far as I'm aware) 

>This is definitely a BIOS issue, not OS. 

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