@Sailor Enceladus That Slacko-5.7-NO-pae.iso did the trick. I cannot speak to the processor function, I just know it wouldn't work with the two other boot disks I described in my post. The Tahrpup specifically popped an error that mentioned PAE not working with the cpu. I also saw under the PAE defi...

Forgive me, but I've been searching the forum posts and other info for a few hours now. As I understand it Puppy normally checks PAE by default. Hence my Wary 5.5 and Tahrpup 6.0.5 Boot disks both fail at startup - and Tahrpup gave me the error of no PAE. I'm searching for an ISO that might be compa...