Paul Rogers wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> As I recall,  though,  those were both ATX boards,  weren't they?  Or
 RJT> at  least the one was.  And I don't happen to have a
 RJT> functioning ATX power supply here at the moment.  Lots of
 RJT> AT supplies,  though.

 PR> One goes both ways, though they both have the ATX connectors.

Ah.  Which one?

 RJT> Left it run for a few hours,  and I got a total of close to 250
 RJT> errors,  all of them the _same_ bit error -- bad L1 cache,  it

 PR> I have one of those, L2 cache though.  I just went into the BIOS
 PR> and disabled it.  It's a little slower, but still usable.

Turns out that was a problem with the board,  not the CPU.

 RJT> had only 16K of L1 cache as opposed to the 64K that the AMD
 RJT> part had,  and *very* different memory speeds indicated.

 PR> Yep, that was the AMD's edge on the Intel chips.  All the clock
 PR> multiplying tends to bottleneck the busses.

I always did like AMD parts better.

 RJT> Whoops!  Just tried it again,  after letting sit there off for a while,
 RJT> now  it tries to boot,  I get "loading..." (from the floppy?) and 
 RJT> then it resets and starts all over again.  Still sick. Only this 
 RJT> time it got past the point it'd stopped at before and now 
 RJT> displays the "System Configuration" box and is hung...

 PR> Can you get into setup?  Maybe try to reset to the defaults. 

Nah,  that board is toast.  So,  apparently,  is the one I picked up as a
replacement yesterday.  The system works fine except for one little thing
-- it can't talk to the network reliably.  Back it goes,  shortly,  and I
get another one to try.  Nice board,  otherwise -- apparently
"SIS" chipset?  It seems faster than the other stuff for some
aspects of things,  though they didn't give me the cables to access the
onboard sound & video and I have them disabled.  I suspect that area is
where my problem is.  Oh well.

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