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.
> >
> >
> >
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