I had the exact same problem with the exact same cpu (different mb no doubt, you couldn't have the pos I have). It turned out I needed more memory. Not knowing a lot about the mb or the chips I bought I'm still trying to figure out why two 128mb chips give me 65mb of memory. The happy part is ML 8.2 runs very well and installed flawlessly (keeping in mind that I only wanted a file server so no heavy graphics or multi-media stuff is installed). On the other side of the fence is the fact that I shouldn't be putting money into this old mb and I need a bigger hd anyway so I will no doubt replace the mb with something that will like my chips, find a used 20g hd somewhere and only keep the case and it's accoutrements (cdrom, cdburner, floppy). It was a fun project though! R ----- Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson > Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 5:55 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Using a Cyrix cpu with MMX > > > On Friday 27 Dec 2002 2:33 pm, Poogle wrote: > > On Friday 27 Dec 2002 H:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Friday 27 Dec 2002 1:32 pm, Poogle wrote: > > > > On Friday 27 Dec 2002 H:40 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > > How likely is it that I could get 9.0 or 8.2 to install with this > > > > > cpu? Has anyone got a working system with this architecture? > > > > > > > > > > Anne > > > > > > > > Anne, > > > > I installed it on a Cyrix box without problems (something like a 366 > > > > IIRC but I don't have access to it to check at the moment) > > Well, I tried it this morning. It's a 233 with MMX, so it's at > the bottom end > of supportable hardware, and it failed utterly. I got as far as F1 for > options, F2 to install, then a blank screen, and absolutely > nothing. I'm not > sure it's worth spending too much time, and certainly not money, on this > machine. If anyone knows a likely cause, I'll have one more try, > but I'm not > too hopeful. > > Anne > >
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