I currently am working at a place that assembles machines..  The experience
there is that the amd-k6-450 were real crapt.  Other amd's have been good,
but one day I swapped out five 450 processors before we had a good one.

Jason Brown

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, kallen3@icircus.net wrote:
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 00:57:13 -0700 (MST)
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> From: kallen3@icircus.net
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: those Fry's Elect. computers
> 
> I bought the same type of barebone system and put slackware on it without
> any problems (using it as my web and mail server). However I'm only using
> a 266 MHZ K6 with 64MB of memory. I wonder if maybe at 450 there is some
> timing problem. 
> 
> > 
> > After some of the discussion and success stories, I decided to go down
> > and grab one. Picked out and AMD type, bought it, and AMD 450 K-6 and
> > 128MB and a new HDD. I can't get anything to come up!  Used their Linux
> > disc and it halts with the message " Calibrating delay loop..."
> > 
> > Then tried Mandrake, Storm, a Redhat 6.1 from an Admin beginner's book
> > and an older 5.1 version that boots from floppy. Got nowhere on any of
> > them. The old 5.1 version only saw the 1st 64MB of RAM available.
> > 
> > Any ideas? I'm beginning to think I need to pre-format the HDD, it's
> > virgin.
> > 
> > 
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