does dsl work with p-IIIS processor?

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Topic: does dsl work with p-IIIS processor?
started by: steve roffey

Posted by steve roffey on Nov. 08 2006,05:00

I am not able to get dsl to boot on my "good " machine. It is a Gigabyte 6vx7-4x f4 bios : pentium IIIS 1133 512 cache: 640 MB pc133 : Geforce g4 460 vtp 64MB DDR 4X agp.
I checked the cheats page and tried failsafe, vga=normal ,base , toram and noram. afer the penguin screen it says loading kernel and it stops and the pc speaker beeps continuously until i shut the power off.

I had no trouble on my WIFE'S - ZM6 : PIII 1000 100fsb : 256 MB pc133 : G2 400 32MB, or the computer in my shop - GA-5AX : K6-2 500 : 256MB pc100, and it even worked on a M761 with a pII 300 and 64 memory and a crappy pci video card.

Therefore i know it isnt the cd, but a hardware problem not allowing dsl to start. Could anyone point me to a thread that may have dealt with this issue?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 08 2006,14:08

Don't know if this applies: < http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-523392.html >

Did you try the superfailsafe bootcode sequence?

btw, where did you see "noram"?

Posted by steve roffey on Nov. 08 2006,17:46

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btw, where did you see "noram"?

I guess I made that up

I meant to say lowram. Hey it was midnight when I posted.

by super failsafe do you refer to

Code Sample

dsl 1 vga=normal atapicd noideraid nosound noapic noacpi acpi=off noscsi noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 08 2006,17:58

sure

Posted by steve roffey on Nov. 10 2006,02:42

Hi. I got it running with the acpi=off option. don'kn ow what it means but it works. I lost my windows boot option , and posted that problem in the HD install thread.
Thanks for the help.