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Subject: Re: Athlon Optimization Problem
From: "Trever L. Adams" <tadams-lists@myrealbox.com>
To: "Calin A. Culianu" <calin@ajvar.org>
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On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 16:05, Calin A. Culianu wrote:
> > It may well the case. All I know is that for some people at least leaving
> > 0x95 as the bios set it up works and touching it does not - while for
> > the 0x55 case on older chips it all seems to be positive. VIA's own stuff
> > doesn't touch 0x95 - maybe there is a reason
> >
> 
> Really?  VIA's own stuff doesn't touch 0x95?  Hmm.  Well is there ever a
> case where touching 0x95 solved ANYTHING?
> 
> What do you think?  Should I change the patch to not touch 0x95?

I know it is fairly common for Award BIOS to touch 0x95.  For example
Soyo Dragon Plus and Epox 8kha+.  Either that or the chipset on these
boards defaults to something that doesn't require the fixup.

Trever Adams


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