Ok, then I stand corrected. Intel chips sometimes faulty, AMD sometimes excellent. But what could it be then? A probability that some chips are faulty? Or the combination of hardware in the machine? Or both?
Boyd >AMD K6-2 500 on my desktop, AMD K-something 233 on my laptop. Both dual >boot Red Hat 7.2 and Windows 98. Virtually never crash. I've had the >same Windows install on the desktop for nearly two years, and I game and >trade out vid cards and all kinds of stuff. > >-- >-j > >John Beamon > >On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Boyd Davezac wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:30:41 -0500 > > From: Boyd Davezac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [brluglist] windows sucks > > > > Not sure if this makes a difference, but I have never had an Intel chip > > always AMD and one Cyrix (when their chips were good). But I have been > > complaining about Windows crashing on my machine to everyone and it has >come > > to my attention that a lot of people don't have these problems. Those >people > > that don't always have an intel chip. Just yesterday I watched a friend >of > > mine's Win98 crash horribly about 5 times in an hour. He is the self > > proclaimed Blue Screen King. However, he, like me has an AMD chip. So I >am > > wondering if I can take a pole to see if people whose machines often >crash > > have an AMD chip? > > > > Boyd > > > > P.S. I found that ocasionally Linux locks up on my machine when playing > > Unreal Tournament. But I think this is due to poor ventilation on my >chip > > which is a whole other argument about heatsink/fan engineers that design > > their fan to sit right where the motherboard power supply goes. AARRRGH! > > DON'T BUY COMPUSA HEATSINKS. > > > > > > >From: Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 16:42, Grant Belgard wrote: > > > > Today we had a slide show presentation at Baton Rouge > > > > High with pictures of students throughout the year. > > > > The laptop was running Powerpoint (obviously on > > > > Windows) and it crashed halfway through. It took so > > > > long to reboot that we didn't have enough time to see > > > > any more. The mob of about 1,200 was ready to have > > > > Bill Gates' head. I have a feeling that the "Windows" > > > > bar on that chart is going to jump over a few more > > > > places to the right this evening... > > > > > > > > > > > > Grant > > > > > >My windows experience for the day has been installing win 2000 server >on > > >a fresh, clean machine and going to the windows update, installing the > > >service pack & critical updates, then rebooting the machine. It would > > >not boot after that! It hangs at some point - and no matter how long I > > >let it sit there, it will not finish booting! The *&$*#&$^&@[EMAIL > > >PROTECTED]@ > > >machine is two hours old - and winblows has already died!!!!! > > > > > >Shannon > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > > > ================================================ > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > > your subscription information. > > ================================================ > > > >================================================ >BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group >Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. >Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change >your subscription information. >================================================ _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
