From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 28 13:02:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA17919 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 13:02:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tok.qiv.com ([204.214.141.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA17914 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 13:02:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with UUCP id PAA01328; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 15:00:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA00841; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 14:42:55 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: acp.qiv.com: jdn owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 14:42:55 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jay D. Nelson" To: Dave Alderman cc: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" , Howard Lew , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: K5 clock speeds (Was: Re: K6-200 Has anyone ...) In-Reply-To: <34059102.95F788BE@persprog.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well -- the upshot of all this is: I flashed the bios simply because ASUS said it was necessary. It did not fail. BTW -- it wasn't fear of flashing the bios -- it was a reluctance to disassemble the machine. At any rate - this T2P4 is jumpered at 66Mhz/2.5x and the chip is correctly recognized as a PR166. Kernel compile took about 4 minutes. -- Jay 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. > > > >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 >