Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems
William T Wilson <fluffy@snurgle.org> writes:
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> On AMD CPUs Windows 95 falls over at clock speeds exceeding 350 MHz.
> You can download a patch from Microsoft that will fix the problem,
> but to install it you will have to drop your system speed down to
> slow. Try setting your system multiplier to x3 instead of x5 to run
> at 300 MHz. Windows should probably boot fine.
I have a K6-2 300MHz, and Windows 95 boots fine. I believe the faster
the K6-2 processor, the more likely Windows 95 is to fail to start up:
there's a timing loop on startup, and it may fail. Something like
that, anyway.
> I think the patch filename is AMDK6UPD.EXE.
There's a patch for Windows 95 OSR2. IIRC, if you have Windows 95A
(as I have), then the only option is to upgrade to Windows 98.
Don't know why Linux should fail to shut down properly, though. Could
it be one of these motherboards that requires APM shutdown to be done
in real mode and that's screwing things up?
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