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Date:      Wed, 01 Feb 95 17:41:19 GMT
From:      "gj%pcs.dec.com@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com" <garyj@rks32.pcs.dec.com>
To:        questions%freebsd.org@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com
Subject:   Re: Discouraged... 
Message-ID:  <m0rZj3P-0005M7C@rks32.pcs.dec.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Michael C. Newell" <mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov>  of Wed, 01 Feb 95 09:06:10 EST.

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Mike wrote:

> Wasn't there a problem reported some time back with AMD 486 chips?  I 
> don't have one so I didn't pay much attention, but I seem to remember a 
> thread about problems caused by a bug in the chip itself [no, I'm NOT 
> confusing it with the dePentia chip!]  Anyway, might be worth a look 
> through the Email archives...

This might have been me. I reported that an AMD 486DX2 didn't work in
my mother board in so far that the npx probe hung. Apparently an
incompatibility between the AMD chip and my MB (an i486DX2 works just
fine).

Since the npx probe hangs it's quite obvious if there's a problem !

Gary J.



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