First post, by sndtst
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I picked up an old PC with a Tyan Tiger 133 motherboard that is a duel slot 1 MB with 2 Pentium 3 800EB processors and 4 sticks of 256 MB PC100 RAM. It also had some other card but I've been trying to bring the computer up and running but so far the furthest I have gotten is to the point where is says Updating DMI Pool... Update Successful. This seems to be intermittent and so far it has never gotten past that point. Most often it stays stuck at Updating DMI Pool and after a few seconds a couple of characters on the screen disappear (a period after the DMI Pool, and the second L in the words Parallel Port). There may be other text corruptions that I'm missing. Also while the system won't boot with a single stick of RAM inserted it seems to occasionally report only 756 MB of ram installed at seems to show only banks 1 2 and 3 being populated. So this might also point to a problem. Things I have tried so far:
1. Reseated all components, (RAM, both CPUs, video card, HD (a 4GB DOM with NT4 installed) and power)
2. removed all unnecessary components to just things needed to boot
3. Replaced everything with a known working part except the motherboard (no other 2 CPU MB), and the processors (I don't have two of any other Slot 1 CPUs)
4. Replaced CMOS battery, cleared bios, reset to factory defaults and reset the device cache.
5. Tried each component from the duel processor system in another known working computer individually and they all worked.
I don't see any obvious bulging capacitors, any one have any ideas of things I can try next?
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