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Trouble installing Linux on circa-1999 Compaq Presario

Subject: Trouble installing Linux on circa-1999 Compaq Presario
From: edwardp-KK0ffGbhmjU at public.gmane.org (edwardp-KK0ffGbhmjU at public.gmane.org)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:38:19 -0500
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Bill Horne wrote:
>
> Pull the BIOS battery and let it sit for five minutes, then try it. You
> might have a bios-infector virus.
>
> HTH.
>
>    

I will try this.

As to the RAM (per another response), I also replaced the memory, it 
still reported the same errors.

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