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digitall2000
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 Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:25 pm Post subject: AMD K-6 compaq presario no-go no-boot no-nadda [SOLVED] |
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hey
i have a compaq presario with a AMD-K6 3D 500MHz
it will not even boot from the cd
i get to the boot: section
i have tried "gentoo" it gets into gentoo.igz and reboots
i have tried "gentoo-nofb and it seems to get past that to READY and reboots
i have tried "gentoo noapic acpi=off" it gets into gentoo.igz and reboots (suggestion from a thread)
i am running memtest86 now
it shows me there is 376M 122MB/s
the 376 M sounds like a mix of chips to me
i will open the box when memtest86 is done
i also have another 500MHz but it is a PIII coppermine it works flawlessly
now the knoppix 5.1.1 will get me all the way into the system
on the AMD box but i have no mouse
the machine was a friends and i loaded win xp on it for him about a year ago
xp works flawlessly (as far as xp goes) though it is reeeeeeeeally slow
any ideas that may help would be greatly appreciated
thanks
lance
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:12 am Post subject: Re: compaq presario no-go no-boot no-nadda |
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| digitall2000 wrote: | i have a compaq presario with a KMD-K6 3D 500MHz
it will not even boot from the cd
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i also have another 500MHz but it is a PIII coppermine it works flawlessly |
Does the CD you are trying to boot have i686 in its name ?
Your PIII is i686 compatible, but your AMD-K6 is only i586 compatible, which means you should use the x86 CD instead. |
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digitall2000
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| Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:02 am Post subject: |
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that was it thank you
lance |
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