[plug] A drastic response to memory problems

[Bill Kenworthy]

John, there's actually a "bug" in some win versions (never, I hear you
say) that meant the faster AMD processors and some others would hang,
usually during boot - was a timing problem which, of course, didnt
affect intel chips).  The fix was a utility that came on a floppy with
the processors and was also available for download.  I think was
anything above 350Mhz was a problem.

BillK

John Breen wrote:
> 
> I have, but no tunder Linux.  My expeience of frequent hangs & crashes was
> windows 98 on an AMD K6-2 450.  W98 would crash frequently, and W2k/NT4 woudl
> crash during the install.  Clocking the beast down to 300 seemed to fix the
> problem.  I suspect that 400 would as well, but I have a working system
> now....
>