[Rule-list] Stubborn p75

[James]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 23:07:15 -0600
Gordon Buzowetsky <idesofmarch at sk.sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 
> > > 16 megs of ram.)  It did the same thing.  So I don't thing it's RULE
> > > per se.  Any ideas?
> > 
> > Hard to say, James. Could be anything.
> > I'd test the memory first of all. It could be flaky memory, or any other
> 
> > hardware for that matter.
> > 
> > Good luck! 
> > At least it probably isn't RULE specific. :)
> >
> Heya James....I had a stubborn mutha of a box like that a while
> back...betcha if you can get that thing to boot up she's gonna be
> dawwwwwwwwwwwg slow....then get errors like you wouldn't beleive.
> 
> My trouble was a bios and harddrive conflict....that bios didn't like
> bigger than 1.2g hdds.  Hell I couldn't even keep an install of Win98
> going on that thing for longer than a week!!!  I put back the old hdd...WD
> 340meg and a Seagate 272 and all was fine....hmmmm.   Good for absolutely
> nuthin...other than dos and maybe win31..As a matter of fact I just did a
> re-install of Win95b for a neighbor last fall...on a similar P75...same
> crap with the bios and even more than one hdd...those things were the
> 'transitional' pentiums....486 type bios and hdwe; and pentium
> thinking....luck...G

I think you've hit on something there..... will look into it.

James

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