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I have a friend that had this problem, and he solved it by UNDER CLOCKING his
k6 down to about 300, installed the patch, then clocked it back up to it's
normal spped.

Richard Dawe wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Rolf Campbell wrote:
> >
> > Jared Stevens wrote:
> > > Also, if you have a 350 mhz processor or faster, windows wont boot at
> > > all until you update some files.
> >
> > I've installed Win95 on a 400MHz machine without any 'updates'.
>
> This is a problem with AMD K6, K6-2 processors. Microsoft used a timing
> loop in one of the device drivers (IOSUBSYS, if memory serves), that
> breaks on 350MHz+ K6s. Nasty. My advice: install the patch from Microsoft
> _before_ you upgrade (if possible), otherwise you may have to reinstall
> Windows.
>
> Bye,
>
> --
> Richard Dawe
> richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com ICQ 47595498 http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/