On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> >
> > Quit ragging on AMD/Cyrix, it this does happen on intel systems, the
> > very first report as a matter of fact It's just most of those boards
> > died in the initial mass of celeron overclockings. And the rest are
> > mainly "screaming gamer rigs". The key point is the bios, and how it's
> > implements the atx shutdown. it's not like it's the first time oems have
> > tweaked hardware..
> >
> T'wasn't "ragging on AMD/Cyrix." I was "ragging on" the
> person/persons responsible for the *apparently* buggy atx APM drivers.
> :-)
> The implication *I* got from you, Axalon, was that it was a driver
> problem, not that it was a BIOS problem. Are you now stating that
> it's a BIOS problem and not an APM driver problem???
Bios apm implementation, and what the driver expects. (my board in
particular doesn't function correctly in windows either)
> I can understand why it would happen to O/C'ed systems, but other
> than *intentionally* destabilized (overclocked) systems, have there
> been any reports of this happening on an Intel chipset or processor?
> Just wondering why it appears to be affecting PRIMARILY non-Intel
> chpsets and processors? (NOTE: I *prefer* non-intel processors!!!)
> John
I didn't say the board as overclocked, i said most of those systems died
Yes it was a slot 1 celeron or p2 i forget which, i'm sure it was a slot 1
with award bios though
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