On 18 May 1999 07:32:31 Travis Siegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My girlfriend bought an amd k6 300MHZ
> chip/motherboard combo at the last computer show, (got a real good deal
> too) and win95 is having one hell of a time with it all. Illegal
> operations and blue screens all over the place.
Assuming:
1 - that the motherboard/AMD chip are *not* defective, and
2 - the chip has a heat sink and cooling fan attached on top...
There should be no problems. Of course, MS and other MS-influenced
software writers occasionally will write something ( usually games )
that "require" a pentium. That is, they have a "setup" program that
accesses the chip type and balks when it dosn't return "pentium".
I got around this on an "OFF ROAD TEST DRIVE" game for my youngest
son by rewriting a text file it produced during setup, which said
"processor type: 486". ( My AMD 586 reports as a 486.)
Try this test: after the machine has been running for 30 minutes or
more, *carefully* touch the heat sink atop the chip. If it is warm
- even "very" warm, almost "hot" - it's probably okay.
If you leave pieces of blistered fingertip upon the heat sink, you can
bet that either the applied voltage ( 3.3 v for a 686 ? dunno...) is
too high, or that it is a seriously overclocked non-300 MHz processor.
In both cases, that is a defect, and she should get her money back.
- John T.
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