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From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>
Subject: RE: Panic at setup time
To: 'Olivier Nicole' <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
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Dear Oliver,

> 
> I have a brand new PC based on a motherboard AOPEN MX6B EZ,
> Pentium III 700 MHz, 128 MB RAM, with a disk Western Digital
> ATA 33, 10 Gbytes and a network card 3Com 905C.
>
Try taking out hardware and reinstalling. E.g. remove the 3com and if you
have several DIMMs to make up the 128Mb remove all but one.

If you have only one DIMM, return it to the vendor and ask for a replacement
of 2x64Mb, so you can do the pull-one-DIMM trick in case future failures and
so you can run the machine with 1/2 memory in case a DIMM breaks on sunday.
:-) (been there, done that)

If you have an old PC lying around, try replacing the video board.

What's the panic message?

    Kees Jan

PS. Why on earth did you buy an ATA33 board? ATA66 costs nothing extra these
days, and with 128MB RAM you box is very likely to be disk-bound. (Mine is)

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