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Article #431Re: Help - Cyrix P166+ problems!
From: #g_larson
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:00
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Does your motherboard support AMD and Cyrix cpu's. Are the jumpers set correctly for the CPU type. I have sold hundreds of OEM HX boards for $95 with no problems. You might want to try a jumperless motherboard that setups the cpu via software. I sell one for $129, the ABIT IT5 w/512k L2 cache. On 17 Mar 1997 11:24:04 GMT, "Iain Dunn" <dunn@wantree.com.au> wrote: >Gday, > >I recently bought a new clone HX motherboard with a Cyrix P166+ CPU. > >In the 5 days I have had it I have had to format my Hard Drives 3 times, >then go through the process of re-installing all of my software. > >Basically I am getting a lot of Windows Protection errors, lost clusters >and spontaneous reboots. > >The system worked fine for the last couple of days but when I got home >today it would reboot after loading Win95 (OEM 2) about halfway. I tried to >re install Win95 but was having a lot of errors reading the CD Rom (Corrupt >cab file message) and lock-ups in DOS. After re-partitioning and formating >the Hard Drives again I was able to get Win 95 installed again (albeit with >a couple of crashes). I am loathe to re install all of my software again as >I dont trust the machine. > >Any ideas of possible reasons for my problem will be greatly appreciated. > >Iain Dunn > >Perth, Western Australia. g_larson@ix.netcom.com Computer Hardware Reseller (mc/visa/ae/disc)accepted Low Prices on Hardware and Software
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,740b434172112eff X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: 10dc12,740b434172112eff X-Google-Attributes: gid10dc12,public X-Google-Thread: 10d516,740b434172112eff X-Google-Attributes: gid10d516,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,740b434172112eff X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: f70d1,740b434172112eff X-Google-Attributes: gidf70d1,public X-Google-Thread: 104cb0,740b434172112eff X-Google-Attributes: gid104cb0,public X-Google-Thread: 11196f,740b434172112eff X-Google-Attributes: gid11196f,public X-Google-Thread: 10a2ed,740b434172112eff X-Google-Attributes: gid10a2ed,public From: #g_larson@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: Help - Cyrix P166+ problems! Date: 1997/03/18 Message-ID: <332e3530.89412272@nntp.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 226340942 References: <01bc32c4$ede64040$39e437cb@dad-s> Organization: Netcom X-NETCOM-Date: Mon Mar 17 10:32:14 PM PST 1997 Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,aus.computers.ibm-pc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,microsoft.pu