From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 27 22:54:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA09834 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 22:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net (root@mindbender.serv.net [205.153.153.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA09829 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 22:54:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA02625; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 22:54:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708280554.WAA02625@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jay D. Nelson" cc: Howard Lew , hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: K5 clock speeds (Was: Re: K6-200 Has anyone ...) In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 27 Aug 97 23:07:13 -0500. Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 22:53:12 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Thanks for the info. What you are suggesting is that the clock is the >only thing that counts and moving the jumper to x2.5 is all that's >necessary -- regardless of the bios. Why would ASUS issue a bios >upgrade to support 150-166Mhz K5s? (Marketing?) How could it be marketing? They don't make money on BIOS upgrades. I suspect it has to do with tuning the chipsets correctly to work with the specific timing requirements of the K6. I have an Asus P55TP4N, the Triton-1 board just before Triton-2 came out. I bought it originally with a Pentium 100MHz CPU. It ran NetBSD just great for about a year. Later, I decided to put a Cyrix 6x86 P166+ in it. I plugged the chip in, and it booted, but it would get sig 11's constantly, and eventually panic. I wasn't sure if I had a bad chip, or a bad motherboard, or what. But verified it worked correctly with the Pentium. I was getting ready to send the Cyrix chip back when I checked the Asus web site, and found that a BIOS upgrade was recommended. I downloaded the BIOS, flashed it, and rebooted. The machine consequently proceeded to give my over 90 days solid uptime, before I accidently made my UPS shutdown while doing a reinstall of Win95 on my NT/95/Decsent box. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net Contract software development for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Unix. Windows NT and Unix server development in C++ and C. --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------