Reply 20 of 25, by Meatball
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Sukhoikip wrote on 2023-05-28, 03:22:Meatball wrote on 2023-05-28, 03:06:Sukhoikip wrote on 2023-05-28, 02:38:Meatball, I tried the above settings, it generates a different error, attached. After a few POSTs the system stopped POSTing and instead made a couple long beeps followed by endless short beeps. Clearing the CMOS seems like a good point to stop for the night.
Repo Man, I set the timings to "slow" which is the best the BIOS would allow even if the RAM was the problem. The RAM is probably fine as it's the same kit I used for hwbot X265 on my S370, during which it ran for almost 30 hours at PC140. Is there a way to just get the memtest program so I can run it from the DOS prompt rather than burn an entire CD to test one system?
Based on your description of the most recent POST codes, I wonder if there is a CPU problem. Have you tried a different K6-2? Are you able to swap in a Pentium MMX?
You didn't use the F5 and Standard HAL setting in this scenario, right? You shouldn't, but just checking.
I did try the Standard PC HAL with the BIOS settings you suggested, didn't realize I shouldn't. I do not have another socket 7 CPU, but I'm not inclined to blame it unless the system doesn't recover.
I should have clarified to prevent confusion; I apologize. Once the APM option is disabled the system is ACPI, and F5 won't be necessary during Windows setup.