CyrixInstead patch for MSN messenger

To cut to the chase...
I am need of a patch so that I can install MSN 6 on my system.
I am running CyrixInstead, but I am getting that error message stating
that I need to be running pentium.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I promise you can have my first born....hee hee

Pheonix from the ash wrote:

> To cut to the chase...
> I am need of a patch so that I can install MSN 6 on my system.
> I am running CyrixInstead, but I am getting that error message stating
> that I need to be running pentium.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> I promise you can have my first born....hee hee


Google tells me that this might be what you're looking for:
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/redir/noproccheck.asp


-WD

Pheonix from the ash wrote:

> To cut to the chase...
> I am need of a patch so that I can install MSN 6 on my system.
> I am running CyrixInstead, but I am getting that error message stating
> that I need to be running pentium.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Complain to Microsoft. Several percent of desktops still sit on Cyrix
chips, it is in their interests to have MSN Messenger be able to be
installed on them. The only reason why the installer isn't letting you
install would be sloppy CPUID coding that needs to be fixed up.

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:09:16 +1300, Identity <ident@nodomain.cx>
wrote:

>> To cut to the chase...
>> I am need of a patch so that I can install MSN 6 on my system.
>> I am running CyrixInstead, but I am getting that error message stating
>> that I need to be running pentium.
>>
>> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
>Complain to Microsoft. Several percent of desktops still sit on Cyrix
>chips, it is in their interests to have MSN Messenger be able to be
>installed on them. The only reason why the installer isn't letting you
>install would be sloppy CPUID coding that needs to be fixed up.

I still don't get it why Windows has such problems running on a Cyrix
CPU. I have Debian running on a Cyrix 300+ system as a fileserver,
router, mailserver, firewall, etc... this little system is running for
over 1.5 years now, without a glitch.

Even a plain Win98 install isn't that obvious on this type of
hardware...

On 15 Feb 2004 16:33:33 -0800, songsharegroup@yahoo.ca (Pheonix from
the ash) wrote:
>To cut to the chase...
>I am need of a patch so that I can install MSN 6 on my system.
>I am running CyrixInstead, but I am getting that error message stating
>that I need to be running pentium.
>
>Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>I promise you can have my first born....hee hee

Try this page:

http://www.paradicesoftware.com/spe...uidtroubles.htm

The util at the bottom of the page should enable the CPUID instruction
for your processor. That should do the trick for all but the
sloppiest of programming.

-------------
Tony Hill
hilla <underscore> 20 <at> yahoo <dot> ca

Will Dormann <wdormann@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message news:<fMUXb.10391$g95.4635@fe3.columbus.rr.com>...
> Pheonix from the ash wrote:
>
> > To cut to the chase...
> > I am need of a patch so that I can install MSN 6 on my system.
> > I am running CyrixInstead, but I am getting that error message stating
> > that I need to be running pentium.
> >
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> > I promise you can have my first born....hee hee
>
>
> Google tells me that this might be what you're looking for:
> http://messenger.jonathankay.com/redir/noproccheck.asp
>
>
> -WD

Thanks to all who answered. I spoke to Johnathan, so to speak,
before, and he was stymied also.
I am contacting MSN to bitch about the whole Cyrix incompatibility
issue too......bloody nazis.

On 15 Feb 2004 16:33:33 -0800, songsharegroup@yahoo.ca (Pheonix from
the ash) wrote:
>To cut to the chase...
>I am need of a patch so that I can install MSN 6 on my system.
>I am running CyrixInstead, but I am getting that error message stating
>that I need to be running pentium.
>
>Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>I promise you can have my first born....hee hee

Try www.trillian.cc or gaim.sourceforge.net for a long term patch to
the MSN problem

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