Re: [TCLUG:9472] bios

[Troy Johnson <john1536@tc.umn.edu>]

Kelly,

> but tech for tech, the Coppermine wins all over the Athlon.

Excuse me for not taking you at your word, but I must ask the question:
according to who (besides yourself)? I have heard both sides and I am
not convinced.

Troy

"Schoenhofen, Kelly" wrote:
> 
> Well, there have been various bios-changing proggies for various bios lines
> thru-out the years, that you can run from Windows/etc, but regardless, the
> changes you are referring to would require a hard reset on your bus at the
> very least. You're going to have to power-cycle, no way around it.
> 
> On a different note, the p3-600 coppermines are out already. The 733's are
> out as well, I do believe, if not in volume.
> 
> On yet another note, aside from the $$ difference between the equivalent
> Athlon to Coppermine cpu, Intel has finally reclaimed the cpu crown. It will
> be interesting to see who wins each leg of the clock speed race, but tech
> for tech, the Coppermine wins all over the Athlon.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Heil [mailto:heilja@varsityonline.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 10:37 AM
> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject: [TCLUG:9472] bios
> 
> Does anyone know how to get the bios of a running computer?  I need to
> upgrade
> PIII cpu's from a 450 to dual 600, and need to verify that the bios is ok.
> I would like to check this out without powercycling my co-located production
> webserver box.  BTW, does anyone know when Intel released the PIII 600
> chips?
> 
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