Need few boots to get to windows ! SOS !!

[Cyrix Rules]

Hi guys, i really need some advice here BADLY !! When i boot it up, it shows cpu, memory scan and primary master and slave. The next thing it shows is a blank screen with blinking "-" at the upper left corner. I need to reboot it couples of times until it get to windows.

The funny thing is, when i disable CPU internal cache from mobo, it boots to windows no problem. (VERY EXTREME SLOW)

So what's the potential problem am i facing here ???
CPU or mobo ??

here are the components

K7 600
EPOX KX7A
generic memory PC 100
250W ps

 

[rkoenn]

Hardly know exactly what is wrong, but try these couple of things. Take your memory out and carefully rub a pencil eraser along the contacts. Check your memory settings in the BIOS and if you have your PC100 memory running at 133, take it back to 100 settings. Also make sure all of your other memory settings are conservative. And, are you overclocking? If you are, back down on the speed. Finally, you can take your system down to only the video card and see if it is possibly related to one of your expansion cards. When I have had this happen in the past to me, it was usually with setting the memory settings to too high a performance level.