Crash on a K6?

If it's a 6x86 Cyrix Chip, I aint suprised, but email me to get it fixed under cyrix/ -- Sincerely, Mark F. Got a site on the Web? Want to promote or Join a Network? Heres your place to go: http://www.webstorage.com/~simgo/ Want to learn NASCAR 2 and/or Icr2 Editing? Well, then come here!: http://www.webstorage.com/~simgo/mypage/ Best Page of The Web!: http://www.aolsucks.com (nospam) > I bought a K6-166 chip and new Biostar motherboard. It installed ok >but I had some work done on it to remove a Hard disk patch. I've been >able to get disk installed programs to work, but Nascar from CD Rom >crashes! I don't know if my CD player is failing, but does anyone else >have problems with a K6 chip? Biostar boards? > Jp

I aint supprised either. Get arrid of it. Amd and CYRIX chips are both real 486 chips. Don't listen to the other liers out there. But the speeds on those 486 chip are like 363 mhz for a tru 133cyrix. get a pentium -- Sincerely, Mark F. Got a site on the Web? Want to promote or Join a Network? Heres your place to go: http://www.webstorage.com/~simgo/ Want to learn NASCAR 2 and/or Icr2 Editing? Well, then come here!: http://www.webstorage.com/~simgo/mypage/ Best Page of The Web!: http://www.aolsucks.com (nospam) > Actually, it's an AMD chip, but if you have any suggestions or insight, >I would appreciate it. Hell, Windows 95 won't work either! > Jp >>If it's a 6x86 Cyrix Chip, I aint suprised, but email me to get it fixed >>under cyrix/ >> Sincerely, >> Mark F.

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> An AMD K6 is nowhere near a 486. I ran personal test with an AMD k6-166 and > a pent 166mmx(swapping both in the same machine) and both ran about the > same with N1 and N2. If I had to pick a winner, I would say the K6 won, but > barely. I have an AMD K6-166 in one machine and a Pentium mmx166 and > neither has given me any trouble running N2, or N1. I have them both > overclocked to 208mhz (83 x 2.5). > Your knowledge of CPU's seems limited. > > I aint supprised either. Get arrid of it. Amd and CYRIX chips are both > real > > 486 chips. Don't listen to the other liers out there. But the speeds on > > those 486 chip are like 363 mhz for a tru 133cyrix. get a pentium

His point was that they ARE 486s, just very, very fast 486s... Make sure you have disabled anything that "fools" your computer into thinking it's got a Pentium inside, because it doesn't. ---Jim

I had a similar prob' with my 233 K6 because I set the wrong voltages for it. The chip has its correct voltages printed on it, so check that you have those voltages set correctly on your 'board. The chip has 2 different voltages on it: in/out an core. I think they are 2.9v and 3.3v, but I'd check the chip to make sure. From memory, I think the 233 uses 3.2v and 3.3v, and I had it set to the other (K166 and K200) voltages, so it would drop out of ICR2 almost immediately, and F1GP2 regularly. I also had other annoying side-effects too, but now that it's set up properly everything is fine. -- To reply, remove nosmeg from e-mail address.

The guy mentions he has a k6 and this guy tells him it a 486 chip. Not hardly. > > An AMD K6 is nowhere near a 486. I ran personal test with an AMD k6-166 and > > a pent 166mmx(swapping both in the same machine) and both ran about the > > same with N1 and N2. If I had to pick a winner, I would say the K6 won, but

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> > barely. I have an AMD K6-166 in one machine and a Pentium mmx166 and > > neither has given me any trouble running N2, or N1. I have them both > > overclocked to 208mhz (83 x 2.5). > > Your knowledge of CPU's seems limited. > > > I aint supprised either. Get arrid of it. Amd and CYRIX chips are

both > > real > > > 486 chips. Don't listen to the other liers out there. But the speeds on

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> > > those 486 chip are like 363 mhz for a tru 133cyrix. get a pentium > His point was that they ARE 486s, just very, very fast 486s... > Make sure you have disabled anything that "fools" your computer into > thinking it's got a Pentium inside, because it doesn't. > ---Jim

I appreciate everyone's help, but actually I now think that the problem lies in my CD Rom player. I installed DoomII from diskette and it works fine. Nascar Racing, from CD Rom fails installation, and consequently, the startup. It always gives me: DOS/4GW Professional Run Error 2001 blah blah blah. I assume this is packaged inside of nascar.exe (Which always fails installation)? Jp