Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 10:53:54 -0400 From: Dave Alderman <dave@persprog.com> To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> Cc: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>, Howard Lew <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: K5 clock speeds (Was: Re: K6-200 Has anyone ...) Message-ID: <34059102.95F788BE@persprog.com> References: <199708280554.WAA02625@MindBender.serv.net>
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Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > > 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. > > Mr VanLoon Don't you know that only Intel can make processors that work? No one can ever match their expertise EVER. Likewise why are you bothering with these obviously inferior operating systems such as NetBSD and FreeBSD? Only Microsoft has the resources necessary to make a true robust and reliable OS. <EndOfSarcasm> I hear this argument with microprocessors all the time. I thought I would extend it to OS'es and see how it sounded. To everyone: Why are some people afraid of flash upgrading their BIOS? I know most people on this group would not even blink at upgrading their kernel but BIOS'es are another matter. If a motherboard is not identifying your CPU properly it seems an upgrade is more than justified. Has anyone actually had a flash upgrade fail? -- David W. Alderman dave@persprog.com
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