Hello,
I am the perhaps very troubled, owner of a Cyrix system.
The old config had 32 megs of EDO ram, a decent motherboard and a broken
cooling fan.
Considering the broken fan, and the fact that the system was severely
out of order, I have tried to rebuild the system.
However, stroke of bad luck #1, the CMOS battery had died. Ok problem
quickly sorted, replaced it with a one from a functioning system.
Managed to boot to Windows 98 but nothing happened beyond that. =P
I tried reinstalling the system and, lucky me, I even got a blue screen
of death. After some investigation (considering the fact that I knew it
was a memory related problem from experience), I noticed the last EDO
slot was not very firm (stroke of bad luck #2), BIOS could count all the
memory but it wasn't really in there. Problem quickly fixed, I replaced
the twin sets of 16 MB chips with a pair mamoth 64 MB chips that I had
inherited from a system that need not have as much memory.
After a complete delete and reinstall, the system had about 1/2 of blue
screens less. The system was intended as a webtv (dailup and browser
only), alas I couldn't keep the system stable enough not to get a long
series of errors in the kernel after running either the browser or the
dailer.
I have configured all the memory configs in BIOS to maximum compatibilty
to no avail.
I have read up on the issue via google and while most people have
noticed that the problem is: 1. Caused by improper power supply or, 2.
Too high temperature. And while I can pretend it is not very obvious, it
is true that it's not actualy documented anywhere, but is Thermal
Throttling supported by Cyrix????
I would like to try turning off those features and giving it a try but I
don't want to scortch it. =P
I know it's something in the BIOS configs because it only stopped
working after the BIOS had reset to defaults. Which settings should I
set to what first?
--
"...It's like i'm so dumb sometimes... :S
You guys are so young and look what you do!!!
He's making these 3D things and playing
Norway-UK and you just 'have a little fun
with the PC' and come up with ICI and
a thinking database!..."
-- Serenity
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