Rick wrote:
>> I think this second "problem" is the cause of the first....If
>> your BIOS has no "turbo" option, and you get a "lockup" when the
>> speed drop occurs (what you described is a form of "lockup")..
>> then, the chip would seem to have an internal temp sensor, and
>> it's saving its brains from cooking.......
>
>I think this is correct, make sure your CPU cooling fan is functional!
>I just (wks ago) got an AMD400 K6-2 & it doesn't like my early ver. of
>WINsnot95 but runs fine in DOS ... my fan is kewl <g>.
You are aware of the fact that W95 needs a bugfix to operate correctly on a
AMD K6-2 350 or faster, if not go to http://www.amd.com/ and find it (if
you want to run Win95 that is). Suprisingly AMDs site were much better when
I downloaded this driver back then (a workaround I discovered is to first
start DOS and then run win.com to start Windows 4.x - which also lets you
run the bugfix on the computer something that AMD and M$ has left out)
>If your using WINcrap95/98 you can get a software cooling prog that
>helps ... let me know if you need & I'll point you there. Any "Pentium"
>class CPU NEEDS cooling with external fan on top! When I first built my
>PR90AMD the fan died after a week & I experienced the probs you noticed
>... new fan ... no probs.
But I've checked up on the temperature (IO 210h IIRC) and it's always
bellow these extreme temperatures that have been showing at times. And the
fan comes from the same company, so it's actualyl their problem as soon as
I get to the shop with my computer.
As a side note I actually found a fan on a 486DX266 (IIRC) that I recently
took a part. Perhaps I can use it to cool down a litle more (I have no idea
hos to actually make it stick in one position but still it might be worth a
shot, the HDs tend to get rather hot at times...)
//Bernie
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