Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1919 mails)

[mlm@xxxxxxx (Mike McFarlane)]

Donald E. Stidwell wrote:
> I don't know about the 8600B but I have a Amptron PM-9600 MB with a AMD
> K-6 and it works flawlessly for me under SuSE, NT and Windoze.  I just
> flash upgraded the BIOS last week and still no problems.  Maybe the
> 8600C is a problematic board?
> 
> Don

I just have one last comment on this thread. I installed the PM-8600C in
my son's pc last night and it worked flawlessly running win95. The
chipset is a VX2+ which is different than the 8600B. It uses Award BIOS
version 4.51PG (April 1998 version). I paid $56 for it brand new,
shipping included (bought from onsale.com, shipped from compgeeks.com).
I'm happy with it, at least for win95, however, SuSE does say there can
be some problems with the Award 4.51 BIOS  -  to quote from SuSE:

<start quote>
Symptom:
The machine reboots during the installation 
The machine simply crashes 
Installing packages with YaST is interrupted and the machine crashes or
reboots. 

Cause:
In most cases this is caused by Bios-failures or errors in the plug&play
extensions. 
There are known problems with some versions of the Award 4.51 Bios. But
also boards
and biosses by other manufacturers are affected. 

Solution:
Try to get and install a bios-update. You can get it from the
manufacturer or vendor of your
board. 
<end quote>

So the moral of the story seems to be to make sure that you have the
latest BIOS installed if you are having any crashing problems.

Mike McFarlane
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