Henry House wrote: > Has anyone tried LinuxBIOS with Cyrix C3 CPUs? (Can't try myself since I have > not yet located a socket370 board with a compatible chipset.) According to > the docs on VIA's site, the C3 Samuel 2 is not usually compatible with a BIOS > written for Intel CPUs.
I tried this quite a while ago, it got thru linuxbios and booted a C3 configured kernel on matsonic MS7308E board, but even with the cpu clock throttled down it still needs active cooling, 10 watts heats up a heatsink with no fan pretty quick, a fan is a must. C3 won't complete boot under normal BIOS on MS7308E though. Brian
