Al salaam a'alaykum Bob

16 Nov 03 09:35, Bob Lawrence wrote to David Drummond:

 BL>> What worried s me is not scandisk (who gives a shit anyway)
 BL>> it's the thought that Microsoft has built somethign sneaky into
 BL>> the Athlon itself, or the Athlon BIOS. Where else can the
 BL>> message becoming from? If I boot from floppy and the 486 works
 BL>> okay and the Athlon doesn't... what's the difference? It's only
 BL>> the CPU and BIOS.

 DD>> A non-Intel CPU?

 BL>  An AMD Athlon. That's why I went for AMD... to avoid M$ tricks in
 BL> the Intel.

Maybe M$ isn't so compatible with the AMD chip and is confused (hence your messages).

Regards,
David

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