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#1 2016-02-16 02:06
- bobby
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Intel Pentium 4 will not boot i386 Q4OS 1.4.5
I was given a Pentium 4 Laptop and Q4OS 1.4.5 i386 says, "Your cpu does not have pae".
This is a clone laptop. I wonder if it not a real Intel Processor ?
It says I can use forcepae but do at my own risk.
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#2 2016-02-16 10:51
- q4osteam
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Re: Intel Pentium 4 will not boot i386 Q4OS 1.4.5
Live CD supports PAE processors only. You can safely install from 'Install CD' instead, it supports all sort of i386 CPUs.
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#3 2016-02-16 18:30
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Re: Intel Pentium 4 will not boot i386 Q4OS 1.4.5
@Q4OSTeam, Thank You. Will remember this.
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#4 2016-02-17 01:04
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Re: Intel Pentium 4 will not boot i386 Q4OS 1.4.5
cc, Its a clone Laptop and it shows Pentium 4 in the Bios. What can I do to verify if its a Pentium "M" ?
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#5 2016-02-17 04:09
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Re: Intel Pentium 4 will not boot i386 Q4OS 1.4.5
cc, I went back and looked at this clone laptop and sure enough, clear as day and obvious as heck there is a sticker that says, "Pentium M". You know your stuff.
There is absolutely no Manufacture name and their is writing in Chinese. No FCC Number so it looks like an import from Asia. The person who bought it new had a business and contract with IBM Mainframe support. It was a large company with 100 employees. The owner sold the business but, kept several laptops and he gave me his two oldest laptops to put Q4OS on so I could loan to people in the neighborhood.
I will need to upgrade the Memory to 1GB but, I will install Q4OS on the 40GB hard drive with 512MB to make sure sound, video, nic work.
Thanks for help.
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#6 2017-09-17 17:02
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Re: Intel Pentium 4 will not boot i386 Q4OS 1.4.5
Where would I find this "Install CD," One that will boot up on a non-pae machine.
Thanks.
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#7 2017-09-17 17:14
- q4osteam
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Re: Intel Pentium 4 will not boot i386 Q4OS 1.4.5
http://www.q4os.org/downloads1.html > Install CD
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#8 2017-09-17 17:52
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Re: Intel Pentium 4 will not boot i386 Q4OS 1.4.5
Just clarifying as I originally made some comments about bobby's clone laptop and the fact that not only did some bios indicate Pentium 4 when in fact it was a Pentium M but the fact that they are non-pae processors.
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#9 2017-09-18 01:52
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Re: Intel Pentium 4 will not boot i386 Q4OS 1.4.5
Gees. I guess the Install CD download link was too obvious. I thought it was the live CD.
Q4OS -- what a cool OS. I have tried an used dozens of Linux distros -- some Unix types too and even a few non-Linux OSs, like Haiku (BeOS). Q4OS has given a second life to my old Dell Latitude D600 and to an ancient desktop machine.
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#10 2017-09-18 22:04
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Re: Intel Pentium 4 will not boot i386 Q4OS 1.4.5
No doubt Q4OS in my opinion is the best choice for older hardware particularly because they continue to offer a 32bit version.
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