Don't forget the AMD patch to the OS, if it is old enough.
Even WITH that, I have had to under-clock an AMD K6-2-400
to a 233 to get it to work properly... They run real hot.
Got good cooling?             Rick Glazier

From: "Max Timchenko" <[log in to unmask]
>   A weird problem on friend's. His PC didn't post one day. We narrowed
> it down to CPU or MB. MB is GA-5AA, and the CPU is K6III-500. The
> weird thing is, we've a spare Pentium-133 and it works on the MB. A
> replacement CPU (same as the original) has just arrived and doesn't
> work there too. We have no way to test the AMD CPU's.
>
>   What is the problem and shall we dump the MB?

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