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My 486 will not reset with Ctrl-Alt-Del

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First post, by MaxWar

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Ok seriously this is starting to annoy me, i have to use the reset button.
When i Ctrl-Alt-Del i get a blank screen with a flashing cursor top left and it just stays like that.

None of my other computers do this, im using standard AT keyboard, no adapters involved.

Otherwise, computer is excellent, performs great in all aspects.

Maybe i should add that its using an Evergreen 5x86 133 Overdrive CPU.

I did not try to troubleshoot this extensively as i can live with it but it's starting to annoy me now.

Anyone knows what might be causing this?

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Reply 1 of 3, by feipoa

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I had something similar happen to me once when using an AMD X5-133. The solution was a little unexpected; I changed to another AMD X5-133 and the trouble went away.

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Reply 3 of 3, by MaxWar

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I cannot adjust wait states in my Bios 🙁

Long ago this used to be the 486 i was playing on as a kid and i dont think it had this issue, even when we added the evergreen .

It has been in storage for years, i refurbished it last year and had to fix some battery leak damage.

I tried changing the cache between WT and WB, changed nothing.

One thing that comes to my mind is that this computer has 32mb ram, which is more than it can cache with its 64k , maybe a link?

It has so much ram because it used to run OS/2 back then.

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