Hi Pippi,
Welcome back.
I had a similar problem when I first built this Cyrix Media GX
133. I had to go into bios settings and select a slower ram
speed 70 ns instead of the 60 ns that the ram claims to be. I
also had to select a faster processor speed 166 MHz vs the
133 MHz.
I hadn't really noticed the problem when I had 16MB of ram but
when I added another 16 MB the problem started. I returned
ram several times before I hit on this work around. I
determined the problem was ram errors by running the ram
test on the McAfee Nuts&Bolts cd.
This may have nothing to do with your problem, but it did
cause similar symptoms on my machine.
On 10 Jul 01, at 0:06, Yolanda pippi wrote:
> 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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