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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, David Lane wrote:

> Sindi,
> 
> The only thing that makes sense is bad,old,or mismatched RAM.I've had these
> problems and many more  with Windows for just this reason.For some
> reason,Dos usually doesn't care,go figure.
> 
> David Lane

Thanks, will give it one more try.  We did try it with one single 64M DIMM
and could try a different DIMM.  We also tried it with four matching 16M
SIMMs which we put into another computer which is now working with linux 
with that memory.  Perhaps we should just try two SIMMs at a time in case 
there is something wrong with where they plug in.    

I suspected memory when the problem was intermittent on the first
computer.  But it is not intermitted on another computer now.

We have three computers with the same (DFI ITBD) motherboard, one of which
works perfectly (so far).  Yesterday one of the others had intermittent
problems but the third one let me boot into BL2 and do plip.  Today the
third one won't boot BL2 at all: the first time I try to boot linux after
booting DOS it loads the kernel then 'IO error, cannot read initrd'.  I
try again and am told zimage is not a kernel, and subsequent attempts give
this second message.  I tried three hard drives with linux in these 2
computers, which all booted linux in three other computers.

The AMD and Cyrix cpus from these won't work in our three VPS motherboards
(these cpus are not listed in the manual but we had to prove it anyway)  
and we can't even upgrade them from Cyrix 150MHz to Intel 166MHz, which
is listed in the manual.  They were all given to us to recycle so I am
not surprised to find problems.  One of these won't work with Windows but
works with linux.  The Cyrix 150s are about as fast as Intel 120s so it is 
a good thing basiclinux does not require a fast computer ;=)

Since one that does work with linux does not work with Windows (crashes)
are the two that won't boot linux likely to work with Windows?

Sindi