Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 22:53:12 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com> Cc: Howard Lew <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com>, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: K5 clock speeds (Was: Re: K6-200 Has anyone ...) Message-ID: <199708280554.WAA02625@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 27 Aug 97 23:07:13 -0500. <Pine.BSF.3.96.970827223335.1001A-100000@acp.qiv.com>
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>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.
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