Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 10:37:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com> To: Dave Alderman <dave@persprog.com> Cc: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>, "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: K5 clock speeds (Was: Re: K6-200 Has anyone ...) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970828103518.24202C-100000@www2.shoppersnet.com> In-Reply-To: <34059102.95F788BE@persprog.com>
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On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Dave Alderman wrote: > 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? Flash upgrades usually don't fail unless people flash it with the wrong version. Then the motherboard is hosed and they need a replacement chip. Even though Award BIOS supposedly still let's use reflash it with their flash bios boot block and an ISA video card, I have never seen that work before. > > -- > David W. Alderman dave@persprog.com >
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