From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 22 11:30:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04833 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 11:30:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from inet.chipweb.ml.org (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA04822 for ; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 11:30:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Message-Id: <199811221930.LAA04822@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 10609 invoked from network); 22 Nov 1998 19:29:39 -0000 Received: from speedy.chipweb.ml.org (172.16.1.1) by inet.chipweb.ml.org with SMTP; 22 Nov 1998 19:29:39 -0000 X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.2 Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 11:24:38 -0800 To: PARADOX@DEPAUW.EDU, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: cpu upgrade, 486SX25 -> ?, feasible? In-Reply-To: <01J4FTA2XNHU00F0KR@DEPAUW.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This isn't FreeBSD-related, but... At 02:57 PM 11/21/98 -0500, PARADOX@DEPAUW.EDU wrote: >But - the only upgrades now available are to 586 class chips, at this stage >of the cpu cycle, I assume that the upgrade chips offered are cyrix, amd, >or similar. I've seen Evergreen chips in use...simple drop-in replacement. >And the bios on this machine is not upgradeable, or so I have >been told, by someone at a zenith [there being two (at least) nowadays]. >The other didn't want to know. But is a bios upgrade really necessary? >I'm tempted to think that people must be making money from upgrade cpus and >if they uniformly failed to work for bios reasons, they would quickly fold. you don't really need a bios upgrade unless you want to use a "large" (>540MB or >504MB) hard drive with it. and if that's what you wan't then you'd get a an IDE or SCSI controller with an onboard bios. >I do realize that the right thing to do is go with a new mb, but that would >require at least a new case and a video card, not to mention the new cpu. >At the moment that's too costly an option. you'd only need a new case if your case is one of those "special" cases that only name-brand computers use... and you could keep using an ISA video card, if that's what you have. >Anybody gone the upgrade route? Any advice? And in the event it should >happen, is all that would be necessary before the swap is a to beild a new, >appropriate, kernel? just boot with kernel.GENERIC after the upgrade, before you build a new kernel --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 ( ludwigp@email.com ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message