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Since I was trying to get consistent benchmarks on all my old hardware, I dragged out this system and messed with it.
Win7-x64 and Win10-x64 will not run; they get to or nearly to the desktop, then do a spontaneous power down. (This is usually caused by an I/O failure.)
ReactOS x86 runs stable but the screen redraw is laggy.
Mint x64 (Debian Edition, current) with an NVidia vidcard kernel-panics.
Same Mint with an AMD vidcard runs, but is laggy. To be accurate, Live runs, Installed does not.
PCLOS x64 stalls just after starting to load the squash.fs file.
MSDOS runs fine!
That pile of errors tells me it is indeed most likely that "not quite a true 64bit CPU" bug, probably causing I/O failure among other errors. So the system might be useful for a 32bit OS, but not for anything newer, and even then may fail in weird ways.
Frankly, changing the OS is hardly going to solve a hardware error. What you should have done is collect errors. If it's not worth keeping, the scrap heap beckons. ReactOS seems best, and another video card. Maybe just a reseat of the Nvidia card.
You high jacked a thread thus your posts were moved to a new thread. If you need help to resolve issue then I suggest that you provide more information other just 'produced errors'. I do suggest that you look at LQ FAQ to help you when composing post(s).
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