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Windows 95 General Troubleshooting

Crashes with AMD K6-2 300 and above

SUMMARY: Having problems with Windows 95 crashing on AMD K6-2 based machines? This tip may have the solution.

Do you have an AMD K6-2 running at over 300 mhz? Are you having problems getting Windows 95 to run? Loyal MalekTips forum reader Rcorn mentioned that this is a known problem to Microsoft and AMD. Luckily, there is a patch that fixes the problem. The patch is available from AMD's website at http://www.amd.com. As of the time this tip was written, the patch can be found at:

http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/k623d/win95_update_k6.html.

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