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[peahouse05]

Hello,
My old AMD k6 is running ok with xp, with minimum software, works fine sharing a Internet connection. I am curious that when it had win98, system showed CPU at 360MHz. With xp it shows 166MHz, is this to do with different OS?
Regards
peahouse05

 

[Anon_F]

should not do so with a different o/s on it, very strange?

 

[Ian]

It may be a bug detecting the speed in a K6, but WinXP can't run on a 166Mhz CPU (thin the min was 233Mhz), so you should be fine

Put it down to some random oddity

 

[muckshifter]

Yes, there is a "bug" (and a few otheres) in XP that fails to detect a K6 properly.

Go to Windows Update Site and use the "custom" button ... always use the custom button ... and you should find an update for your CPU ... and proably a few other updates.

 

[peahouse05]

Thanks both,
It is working ok and I scanned for compatibility using the xp os disk before the clean install. Will try the upgrades.
Cheers
peahouse05