Are you sure the memory is good? I've had PC100 go "bad" that would still
work when you cut the bus speed to 66Mhz as you'd probably have to for the
pentium 166.
HTH,
Phill Roey [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?
>
> Yours,
>
> +=-.
> | Max
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