I bought the same type of barebone system and put slackware on it without
any problems (using it as my web and mail server). However I'm only using
a 266 MHZ K6 with 64MB of memory. I wonder if maybe at 450 there is some
timing problem. 

> 
> After some of the discussion and success stories, I decided to go down
> and grab one. Picked out and AMD type, bought it, and AMD 450 K-6 and
> 128MB and a new HDD. I can't get anything to come up!  Used their Linux
> disc and it halts with the message " Calibrating delay loop..."
> 
> Then tried Mandrake, Storm, a Redhat 6.1 from an Admin beginner's book
> and an older 5.1 version that boots from floppy. Got nowhere on any of
> them. The old 5.1 version only saw the 1st 64MB of RAM available.
> 
> Any ideas? I'm beginning to think I need to pre-format the HDD, it's
> virgin.
> 
> 
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