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Internal and External cache..to enable or not to enable, that is the question.
Name: GailMarie Date: November 20, 2000 at 20:15:31 Pacific
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Hi, I am unable to use my computer without disabling the internal cache. I tried having both the internal and external caches enabled and got "divide overflow error". Then I disabled just the external and got "error while initializing IOS". With the external enabled and internal disabled, it works, but is soooooo ungodly slow. Any idea of what could help? I have a amd k6 2/475 quantum bigfoot-19G and 92 megs RAM. It has been nothing but problem after problem...and I am so sad. )-:
I would try booting to Dos from a floppy and typing 'sys c:'. That will restore io.sys, msdos.sys and command.com.
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Response Number 2
Name: kirk Date: November 20, 2000 at 21:35:58 Pacific
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Get into bios or cmos and see if there is any address values for either cache that are user definable. probably not,but if one address is overlapping the other or some other device in bios that could b the answer if no help do following:
go to lazyant.com and you might find ur answer. they seem to have a lot of good answers there. hardware conflict appears to be the culprit. seek out if there is a newer bios version for ur system bd. if u get no where still maybe reloading/flashing with same version of bios. also u can usally get ur bios makers name and version off screen when u first turn it on. hope it helps
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Response Number 3
Name: fH Date: November 21, 2000 at 06:01:56 Pacific
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Bad CPU chip
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Response Number 4
Name: GailMarie Date: November 21, 2000 at 14:23:49 Pacific
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If its a cpu chip, how would I figure it out? This is a great site, huh?
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