On 28-Apr-99 Michal Szymanski wrote:
> This might be of some interest for people having this particular
> hardware, so I am writing this FIX report to the list:
>
I did report this to the list a few weeks ago...
> [cut]
> One REMARK for followers: write down all BIOS settings before the
> upgrade. One has to clear CMOS after the upgrade and the default "clear"
> BIOS settings (at least in my case) were not proper - only 64 of 192 MB
> RAM was detected. After changing all settings to the original ("old"),
> everything started to work as expected.
>
In addition the memory timings were wrong in my case and system would segfault
every few minutes. Yuck.
Of possibly further interest, is that the "MTRR: your CPUs are initialised
differently" message (don't have the exact text) is issued with both old and
new BIOSes.
Evan.
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