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 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e