The Pentium chip in your computer may not be fully seated in it's socket.
This will often happen with many different types of fans and heatsinks which
"grab" the sides of the socket.
Try unlatching the CPU, don't remove it though. Unlatch it and make sure
that it is flush with the socket. Then re-latch it.
During the speedy manufacturing cycles, or efforts of the clone builder,
this goes overlooked.
A poor or missing pin contact will produce the errors you are seeing.
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marc Polansky
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 9:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] pentium III
I have an Intel Pentium III socket 370 @ 733mhz, and Mandrake fails to boot.
It appears to be when it attempts to identify the processor. It picks it
up as a pentium III, but then says something along the lines of "386/387
coupler failed, attempting to reset" and will scroll that non stop. I've
tried 3 differant versions of mandrake (7.0 (retail) , 7.1 (download),
7.2(download)), and on 3 differant machines (all with the same cpu) Two of
the machines had 240 megabyets of ram (16 shared for video memory) and one
has an even 128. Mandrake reported the same thing upon boot up, in every
trial. Is there any way to run linux on my box or is it a chip/chipset
problem that I would have to buy a new motherboard for?
thanks,
Marc
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