Re: AMD K6 233
I have a P120+ system that didn't exactly work correctly until I obtained
and installed Award's BIOS flash update. It was not handling clocks
correctly or some such problem. I also have a K5 AMD that works very
well. No problems with the Cyrix after updating the BIOS.
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 01:18:08PM +0100, M.C. Bezemer wrote:
> > PS I also heard that linux also doesn't work 100% correct with a Cyrix
> > P166+ (messing up disks etc) . What is true about that?
>
> Not very much, I think. Do you mean the Cyrix 6x86 (M1), or
> the 6x86MX, or maybe even just 6x86L? I've had an original 6x86-P166+
> (133MHz part) running 24x7 under Linux 2.0.32 for four or five
> months now, and I had the same CPU on a different motherboard in
> a dual boot NT/Linux system for another 8 months before that without
> incident.
>
> I have a K6-166 that works fine too.
>
> Hamish
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