Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-14 Thread Bruce Stephens
John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > The problem with shutting down Debian still remains. APM now works > with Windows, so I presume it must be something to do with the > M'board as you suggest. My knowledge is very limited - any > suggestions as to where I should go from here. You may be ab

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-14 Thread John
At 00:12 14/04/00 +0100, you wrote: William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > 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

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-14 Thread John
At 18:47 13/04/00 -0400, you wrote: On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John wrote: > Not wanting to put Debian at risk, I tried to boot Windows - no go and > I could not use safe mode. I re-studied the M/Board Manual and checked On AMD CPUs Windows 95 falls over at clock speeds exceeding 350 MHz. You can do

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-14 Thread Phillip Deackes
John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've attempted to upgrade using 100MHz FSB for the first time. The new > CPU is an AMD500K2, the Motherboard a Gigabyte GA-5AX (Rev5.2.x) > (with ALi Aladdin chipset and Award bios) and a 64MB DIMM (100MHz). > The machine is a standalone one with Win95 on a small p

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-14 Thread Oki DZ
On 14 Apr 2000, Bruce Stephens wrote: > 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? I have potato running on a P. III/550Mhz, APM works fine. OT a bit

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-13 Thread Bruce Stephens
William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > 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 multi

Re: Upgrade to 500MHz problems

2000-04-13 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John wrote: > Not wanting to put Debian at risk, I tried to boot Windows - no go and > I could not use safe mode. I re-studied the M/Board Manual and checked On AMD CPUs Windows 95 falls over at clock speeds exceeding 350 MHz. You can download a patch from Microsoft that wil