Crazy "tin hat" type question...
(Not meant as a joke.)
My wife's computer has had some problems lately.
This got worse over about three weeks...
Mine was built around a month before hers and
had very similar problems a month before hers did...
(Mine has a damaged OS - but is "sort of" working.)
FWIW, this is written from my new replacement.
One thing that stands out "way back" is that hers
refused to boot from a floppy and run Caldera DOS
from a basic "flash your BIOS" plain - "no driver"
image I got from BootDisks.com
(It would start to load and freeze.)
The same floppy boots other similar computers
around here, and I went and D/Led it a couple
times just to be sure.
But then XP-Pro would load and run normally
for hours on end...
Eventually, "freezing" is what the computer did
when just "posting" and/or when looking at the
BIOS settings... (Did not even have to have
a HD hooked up...)
Yesterday, I switched her AMD 1700+ CPU
out, and put in my old one, same model.
I got rid of all the problems (we think) AND
the computer now boots to Caldera DOS...
(And XP-Pro runs for hours on end...)
Any chance that is a coincidence, or is
there "something" in that flavor of DOS
that could choke a CPU that would run
a copy of XP-Pro.
(That is the crazy part of the question...)
Maybe related:
Anybody seeing problems with AMD CPUs
of that era? These were the ones that ran
fairly cool, (45 - 55*C).
The problem is, I have seen of a couple
machines that, once they start, they run well.
Freezing in POST and/or while counting the
RAM, or while in the BIOS settings screens is
getting to be quite common around here lately
on these two machines.
(We hope the one is fixed.)
Rick Glazier
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