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CYRIX ...
Hello,
I am the perhaps very troubled, owner of a Cyrix system. The old config had 32 megs of EDO ram, a decent motherboard and a broken cooling fan. Considering the broken fan, and the fact that the system was severely out of order, I have tried to rebuild the system. However, stroke of bad luck #1, the CMOS battery had died. Ok problem quickly sorted, replaced it with a one from a functioning system. Managed to boot to Windows 98 but nothing happened beyond that. =P I tried reinstalling the system and, lucky me, I even got a blue screen of death. After some investigation (considering the fact that I knew it was a memory related problem from experience), I noticed the last EDO slot was not very firm (stroke of bad luck #2), BIOS could count all the memory but it wasn't really in there. Problem quickly fixed, I replaced the twin sets of 16 MB chips with a pair mamoth 64 MB chips that I had inherited from a system that need not have as much memory. After a complete delete and reinstall, the system had about 1/2 of blue screens less. The system was intended as a webtv (dailup and browser only), alas I couldn't keep the system stable enough not to get a long series of errors in the kernel after running either the browser or the dailer. I have configured all the memory configs in BIOS to maximum compatibilty to no avail. I have read up on the issue via google and while most people have noticed that the problem is: 1. Caused by improper power supply or, 2. Too high temperature. And while I can pretend it is not very obvious, it is true that it's not actualy documented anywhere, but is Thermal Throttling supported by Cyrix???? I would like to try turning off those features and giving it a try but I don't want to scortch it. =P I know it's something in the BIOS configs because it only stopped working after the BIOS had reset to defaults. Which settings should I set to what first? -- "...It's like i'm so dumb sometimes... :S You guys are so young and look what you do!!! He's making these 3D things and playing Norway-UK and you just 'have a little fun with the PC' and come up with ICI and a thinking database!..." -- Serenity http://www.AIMetaSearch.com/ici/index.htm In case the provided e-mail address fails to deliver any time after 31.10.2004, please try |
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