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Problems since K6-2 upgrade

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From: Henry Michel
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 00:00
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Just wondering if anyone else is having problems with the K6-2 300.  I guess
I should describe the problem now.  But first here are the system specs.

AX59-pro with 64 megs Toshiba(at least the chips) 12ns SDRAM and the K6-2
300 running with the 100 Mhz bus.  Memory is running at 66 Mhz.
Diamond Stealth II with latest drivers and new bios.
Soundblaster pro (I know, but I'm waiting for a boot-worthy pci sound card)
Zoom internal dual mode--not the PCI.
And to top it off, Windows 98.

Now for the problem.........Lockups.  And not just 'this program is not
responding'  I'm talking about everything frozen except for the mouse, which
also freezes after a few seconds.

Only a handful of programs cause it and I could live without most of them,
but I would hate to go out and buy some new software and have to add it to
the list.  So far the following programs will freeze my system.  X
demo--right before the title appears.  Norton SI(from the boot mag cd)--the
title appears and stays.  The main window opens and the system is frozen.
Virtua Fighter 2--the main window opens it's time for a reboot.
Final reality will run but oddly enough one of the benchmarks, the one
before the tunnel, won't show.

I have had the motherboard a couple of weeks longer than the chip and it ran
fine with a Pentium 233 MMX.  I tried playing around with bios settings and
went from the 100Mhz bus to the 66Mhz bus.  I have also tried using the
older bios for the Stealth as well as installing the older drivers from
Diamonds site.  Oddly enough, when running Final Reality after changing
drivers all benchmarks showed but the other programs still froze the system.

Also, I have no problem using games like Diablo and Fallout.

I'm sure that this is some problem with the Stealth II drivers but am not
sure that Diamond will be of any help and they don't seem to like to support
their low-end products.

So....is anyone having these problems?

Henry M.
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From: "Henry Michel" <silearth@gte.net>
Subject: Problems since K6-2 upgrade
Date: 1998/08/04
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