"Martin" <ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd> wrote in message
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~misfit~ wrote:

I don't know if you guys remember my posts from a couple of weeks ago (I
can't just add this to that thread as I've just done a clean install)

where

I couldn't get an old AT machine working for the life of me, swapped out
everything to no avail.
I was asked to report back when I solved it so here it is:

[...]
 > I finally fixed it when I tried a third 166MMX in

the second mobo. (Lucky I've got piles of Socket 7 CPUs lying around!)

Thanks for posting the conclusion, and quite a story.

It may well be that the switch-mode DC-DC convertor for the CPU on the
motherboard had failed, or that one or more of the smoothing capacitors
had failed to then zap one or more of the CPU supply rails.


Now... If you have all these CPUs and motherboards 'lying around', how
long to assembling a mega-farm for number crunching?

Mate they're all Socket 7, hardly worth the effort. I just keep 'em for
fixing up old machines for people or, as was the case the other day, putting
a machine together for someone who couldn't afford to buy one. He was lucky,
got the last of my 32Mb and 16Mb 72-pin RAM modules. (96Mb) *And* a 4gig
drive. I'm down to 8Mb and 4Mb in 72-pin now.
--
~misfit~


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