SuSE abandoned Cyrix, so I put in an AMD, now this

[Timothy Domst]

Hi all,

I hope at least some of you are into hardware and can help me.  I had 
put SuSE onto my mom's old junker Packard Bell that she gave to me 
after I sold her my iMac.  I had also put an ethernet card in it and 
some more RAM, and I would say I almost got it running smoothly on my 
little home network.  (It would work ok in 800x600, but I couldn't 
stand it)  There were a lot of issues with the cheapo monitor, the 
maker of which is also out of business.  Then I saw that SuSE would not 
support Cyrix chips in 8.2, so I was convinced by a Welsh gentleman on 
alt.os.linux.suse to replace the Cyrix with an AMD, which is supported, 
cheap, and faster with it's built-in cache.  So I did it and that is 
the story thus far.  There are only two cards, the modem card and the 
ethernet card, so maybe the built-in graphics are incompatible with the 
new chip?


> In article <bl7m7e$9504k$1 at ID-143023.news.uni-berlin.de>, baskitcaise
> <baskitcaise at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Timothy Domst wrote:
> > > Just unplug the old one and stick in a new one?  I can do basic
> > > replacement of stuff like hard drives and memory, but I can't 
> solder
> > > anything.  I found a ton of them on ebay and I want to try it, 
> they're
> > > so cheap.
> > >
> >
> > Yep just drop it in, but you will have to change the core voltage by 
> the
> > jumpers on the board, if its a k6-2 it will need 2.2V ( it should be 
> written
> > on the cpu ) also the chip mhz will come into play so look for fsb 
> jumpers to
> > set to 66, 75, or 100 and the the multiplier, if its a k6-2 400 then 
> the fsb
> > will be 100mhz by 4 multiplier, or 66x6 these should be marked out 
> on the
> > board.
> >
> > It will depend on the mobo manufacturer, the best thing is to 
> download the
> > manual from the manu`s website, this will give the settings and 
> where on the
> > board the jumpers are.
> >
> > If the board says it will not do the full speed of the k6-2, if the 
> multiplier
> > does not go upto the required rate to give the correct speed  then 
> try
> > setting it to x2, some boards will then go a step higher instead and 
> report
> > the right speed.
> >
> > Any probs then post again.
>
> I got it in there and dropped in a k6/iii 366.  I didn't buy a faster
> one and I'm glad because the fsb (whatever that means) jumpers  only go
> up to 75 and the multiplier only goes to 4.  I tried another
> combination hoping that it would go higher but no dice.
>
> (I tried setting the fsb to 2x but that didn't work either, and I
> changed the voltage to 2.2)
>
> Now I have another problem, I boot from the SuSE cd in and I get this
> after DMI pool data success
>
>
> ISOLINUX 1.62 0x3e713b13 copyright blah blah
> Loading...
> Initializing gfx code...
> Memory: 0x10000 - 0x60000, img data at 0x3f5f4
>
> If I try to boot from the rescue disk or the hard drive then I get to
> grub loader and then nothing.
>
> I took out the 128 mb that I had upgraded to (and installed
> successfully with) and put in the original 64, but I still get the same
> thing.
>
> Are there memory jumpers that I need to change?  Thanks for your help
> so far.
>
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