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David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 17 Jul 1998 11:00:06 -0800
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On 17 Jul 98 at 4:05, John Chin wrote:

> There usually are different settings for various 486 CPU makes and
> models. I expect you will have to use different jumper settings if
> you switch from INTEL to a AMD CPU.

  For whatever it's worth:  My experience is that if the board isn't
properly configured for this particular 486 variant, the machine
won't POST.  Aside from the 5v setting, I'm not aware of a
configuration option that will actually damage the CPU.

David G

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