[plug] A drastic response to memory problems

[John Breen]

On Friday 30 March 2001 21:54, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> John, there's actually a "bug" in some win versions (never, I hear you
Hey, I'm a windows programmer - I think I've [robnably run up against most of 
the bugs that m$ admit to, and half the ones they don't...

> say) that meant the faster AMD processors and some others would hang,
> usually during boot - was a timing problem which, of course, didnt
Yes, I'm aware of the timing problem, which is (by now) well documented. 
> affect intel chips).  The fix was a utility that came on a floppy with
Interesting to note, that my oringinal CPU which id have problems, both with 
Win95 and W98 was an Intel.  The K62-450 at work was the first AMD I've ever 
seen with windows issues.

> the processors and was also available for download.  I think was
> anything above 350Mhz was a problem.
Ah, it was a combination of the bus speed and multiplier.  Mostly the 
multiplier as I understand it....

>
> 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....

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Regards,

John Breen

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| John Breen
| BSc (Computer Science)
| Contracting Delphi Programmer
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