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<andlabs>
I switched to SD card and it still fails to boot
<andlabs>
now I'm running memtest86 and it's starting to ttell me even my new RAM is failing
<andlabs>
and I'm not sure if something actually did happen or not
<andlabs>
and now it locked up
<balrog>
Foone: As a matter of fact I have a few PCMCIA memory cards here
<balrog>
one is an AMD AmC008DFLKA and Linux recognizes it as a 4MB card :(
<andlabs>
well I made progress
<andlabs>
switched back to the slot 1
<andlabs>
and memtest86 passed again
<andlabs>
...until the CPU got loose and started failing blockc opies
<andlabs>
tried it agan with all RAM and I managed to ge tthe OS to boot !!!
<andlabs>
and then shut it down before something bad
<andlabs>
so... yeah, either the socket is broken or the CPU is, probably the socket; maybe I didn't install it right either, who knows
<andlabs>
I'll need to get either a new slot 1 CPU or a bracket for properly mounting this slotket since I see others having some plastic cartridge-y bits
<andlabs>
this is a motherboard that has both socket 370 and slot 1 on board
<andlabs>
I don't know what those are called and searching for the obvious phrases like mounting bracket doesn't give me anything relevant
<andlabs>
also the slotket does confirm that the motherboar dindeed does not support the 1Ghz chip :|
<andlabs>
sure I'll get one for $10 just to see if that's better
<andlabs>
though some of the faster ones are also slightly more expensive, but only slightly, and I might get that one because they also say it's tested
<andlabs>
picked up a Pentium III 733 MHz 256KB L2 133Mhz FSB; this should be fun
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<andlabs>
nowadays that would mean getting bombarded with smug european commenters :D
<Nerionaya>
here in my country we have twenty billion volts coming out of the wall socket and it's fine because our plugs aren't just a fork you shove in the power outlet like in america
<andlabs>
change that to 'back in old country," and slap an eastern european accent on it and you've got a 90s kids tv show joke