Anders Johansson wrote:

On Saturday 20 July 2002 19.28, Jim Hatridge wrote:

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I was given a Compaq Presario 9520. That's a PI-75 with 73mb of main memory. I've tried to do a standard SuSE 8.0 install on this thing and it crashes. So I dropped back to SuSE 7.2 and it still crashes. It seems to be something with the CPU. Can anyone give me any hints about Compaqs? Is there anything special I have to do to get Linux to load on to it. Perhaps I should replace the CPU?

I think the first you should do is run a memory test on it. In my experience that is the number 1 source of problems when the installer crashes. 73 meg is also a fairly unusual number for RAM memory.

//Anders

I was having a Presario with a 486 DX4 100MHz(same motherboard as the first Pentium without the PCI and possibility to simply put a Pentium at the ålace of the 486) and it was working very nicely with Suse 6.4. I don't think at you have 73 meg of RAM, it must be 64 in the SIMM connector(s) and 8 meg on the motherboard. It is dificult to get the real size of ram with a program, because at you get different amount of memory with different program. The best think to do is to look at the chips in the box or in the box's manual if you have it to know how much mem you have in the motherboard. For the SIMM or DIMM connectors, you have always a power of 2 meg, such as 2 or 4 or 8 or 16 or 32 meg and so on by used connector. You vill find the same powers of 2 (meg) for each RAM chip on the motherboard, it's the way the chips are made.