That's the only thing I can think of anymore. I had an older memory module in it, then bought the correct one thinking it would fix it, no. In any case, it's going back this morning. They had a $99 MB/CPU special, couldn't resist. Comes with AMD 500 MHz K6-2. I'll use some of the old stuff I have and give it a shot. kallen3@icircus.net wrote: > 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. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss