Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 11:24:38 -0800 From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To: PARADOX@DEPAUW.EDU, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cpu upgrade, 486SX25 -> ?, feasible? Message-ID: <199811221930.LAA04822@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <01J4FTA2XNHU00F0KR@DEPAUW.EDU>
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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
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