[ale] Cyrix 233 CPU

[George Johnson]

Seems that Slackware 9.1 installed ok.  It sees the chip ok and in the
dmesg file it states it is correcting for known flaws in the Cyrix chip.
It does have an issue that it is looking for updated dependencies every
time it boots.  I think I may have lopped off too many items in the
install.  I only wanted a minimum install for networking and email
purposes.  I will be bringing it to the install fest.  It only sees 1 of
my NICs too.  I will be working on it all week.

George Johnson
Regional Account Manager
Morgan Business Associates
gjohnson at mbacs.com		
Phone 678-642-7696


-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Matthew Magee
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 8:13 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Cyrix 233 CPU

I had a similar problem with a AMD K62-500.  Turns out that the CPU
itself was 
dead.  RedHat, SuSE, and Mandrake refused to install.  Free BSD would 
install, but running top would produce a floating point error.  I put in
a 
K6-200 in the same box, and all is well.

May not be the same problem you are having, but an idea anyway.

On Tuesday 07 October 2003 03:55 pm, George Johnson wrote:
> I have an older system, a Power Spec box, that seems to have a hard
time
> loading RH9 or SuSE8.2.  Is there a problem with the CPU in this case?
> SuSE stalls looking at possible packages and RH9 puts garbage on the
> screen in Anaconda.  Manual or lower level installs do not work
either.
> I have 96MB Ram installed.  What is going on here?
>
> George Johnson
>
> Phone 678-642-7696

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