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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!newshost.wcc.govt.nz!newshost.wcc.govt.nz!not-for-mail From: zheng@golem.wcc.govt.nz (Chuck Zheng) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: AMD and Cyrix 486DX: any experience? Date: 8 Jan 1994 17:16:55 +1300 Organization: Wellington City Council Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2glc3n$ljl@golem.wcc.govt.nz> References: <2gdrs3$1qb@news.service.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: golem.wcc.govt.nz Keywords: AMD Cyrix In article <2gdrs3$1qb@news.service.uci.edu>, bob prohaska <rprohask@uci.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anybody have experience with either AMD or Cyrix 486DX cpu's? I have bought a 486 PC just before Xmas. It started with a Cyrix 486DLC-40 (do not think they have a DX chip). It is very fast (Winsock marks 43MHz) but it does not boot NetBSD from harddirve, although it boots from floppy alright. My system board is OPTi495SLC (with 2 VL-Bus slots), plus a Multi I/O controller card and Conner CP30344 340MB IDE disk. I took the machine back to the vendor, they tried a AMD 486DX-40 and Intel 486DX-33MHz and both worked fine. In the end I got myself a 486SX-25 and it works. The vendor told me they had quite a few problems with Cyrix chips - it works fine with DOS and Windows, but could go strange even just putting on some network cards. Hope this helps. cheers chuck