The machine is a 486 with an overdrive 586 chip. I don't know anything
about the chip and am not sure if it should be up to 133mhz like the other
similar one I have. The boot shows it as 120mhz.
There is also 54mb RAM in this, plus a couple of good hard drives (I forget
the size, a gig?) and an as-yet unusable old cdrom to sound card.
The cdrom isn't yet a concern, as I have a worse problem to troubleshoot.
I used floppy disks to load w95 on this, connected to the network, and then
tried to load win98SE from there, if I am lucky the cdrom drivers might be
in w98. If not, I'll take it from there :-)
The machine freezes if left running unattended. Or maybe all the time
after a certain period. I am not sure. I haven't been able to finish the
w98 setup because it freezes. I am certain it's a hardware issue but
what? I've been futzing with the mainboard jumpers trying out different
combinations to see if maybe the settings aren't right for this cpu but
only the original setting works at all so far as I can see.
I am currently assuming the RAM is not at fault because it comes through
the boot check flawlessly time and again, counting up happily.
I can boot to win95 and do stuff, I can run setup for w98 over the network,
but while it's sitting there loading stuff and I sit back, it dies.
Ideas?
Oh, and Hi folks, Yolanda is back under a new nickname and email
address. I'm not on cable anymore either, just the old 33.6 modem we
scrutinized successfully for caller ID (remember?)
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