I don't know about the 8600C, but my Amptron 8600B sits in a bottom drawer, unused. I had nothing but problems withit, BOTH in Win95 and 3 different distributions of Linux. I traced the problem not to the bios, but the "VXPro" chipset. I now have switched to ASUS and have no problems. My advice to you is to stay as far away from Amptron as possible. Hope this helps, Preston
-----Original Message----- From: owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com [<A HREF="mailto:owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com]On">mailto:owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com]On</A> Behalf Of Mike McFarlane Sent: Sunday, July 26, 1998 11:55 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: BIOS and MB Stuff (was Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] New in 5.3)
jep@jephill.com wrote:
. . . Wouldn't it be sufficient for them to work on some good ones e.g., some mobos w Award bios.) . . .
By chance, I was just searching the SuSE db for "Award" and "Amptron" when your email arrived. SuSE says: "There are known problems with some versions of the Award 4.51 Bios. But also boards and biosses by other manufacturers are affected." BTW, the word "amptron" apparently doesn't exist in their db.
Does anyone know if the newer Award BIOSs work ok? I just bought an Amptron 8600C MB with Award BIOS to upgrade my son's 486 win95 machine to a Pentium 233MMX, and I'm tempted to order another to upgrade my aging P133 system. I don't know what BIOS version is on the new MB because I haven't installed it yet, and Amptron's site only refers to the 8600A and B versions so presumably this one is newer (but is it better?). If it at least works for win95 I (and my son) will be happy.
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