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CYRIX ...
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 http://www.AIMetaSearch.com/ici/index.htm In case the provided e-mail address fails to deliver any time after 31.10.2004, please try |
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"Jure Sah" wrote in message
... 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 snipped 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? Cyrix processors did not have thermal throttling. They did have systems management, but that was activity related. Is the heatsink firmly attached, is the fan working? It's unclear if you replaced the fan. You should if you didn't. |
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Pen wrote:
Cyrix processors did not have thermal throttling. They did have systems management, but that was activity related. Ok that would explain the bluescreens, because Thermal Throttling is enabled in BIOS by default... Is the heatsink firmly attached, is the fan working? It's unclear if you replaced the fan. You should if you didn't. I replaced the fan with another, but I hope these fans (they're the size of 486's cooling fans) are actualy sufficient. Are they? In case they are not I will install a larger 12V fan next to the heatsink. Thanks. -- "...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 http://www.AIMetaSearch.com/ici/index.htm In case the provided e-mail address fails to deliver any time after 31.10.2004, please try |
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