>K5 IS a pentium class, but the AMD chipset/systems seemed to be remarkably
>unstable in that generation, I recall hearing constant complaints and
>requests for tech help on my various lists when that system was still new.
>The k6-2 from AMD does not suffer same so I suppose they worked out the
>bugs.
>Something to do with how it's built cheaply.
>
grrr... bad luck for me then, but at least now i know what's causing it..
hmmpf.. and i already had to replace its ventilator with a better one...
finding out after a couple of 'sudden reboots' that the processor was really
really hot :(
anyway.. thanks.
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