I have known for years that AMD CPU 350 or above will cause a timing problem under Win95, and AMD has produced a fix for that, and for many years, we never had to go down the same route again, until now, a customer has some software that will only run under 95, but it will be under a Duron 1000, just wondering if anyone had actully ran a similar setup with the patch for a while and noticed any long term effects ?

Thanks

i'ved used 95 on my athlon before, so it shouldn't be a problem much, but why 95??? i would highly suggest 98se.

Have to say, i use 95 on a duron machine at work, for much he same reason as your customer, have been for about a year with no probs.

Some software wont run under 98.

i also have software that wont run on anything faster than a 166 machine.

Thanks for the feedback Jack..

I got one runing, reason is the software compatibilty again.. Old 95-MS-DOS progz that only run on 95.

And no problems, runing it about 1/2 a year now.

It's a pitty to cripple a system by running Win95 on it for the sake of a single proggy. Will that software run in DOS mode? at least then you could use win98 as the OS and have a simple pif for that proggy so it runs in DOS mode. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=188157

Darkman, I don't know about duffy, but im my case the answer it no... :furious:
The Progy was made to use Win95's kernal dos integration...:zombie:
It won't work form DOS, and won't work from any other OS..

ouch!

for me i think mine would run in 98, but networking it to the NT machines was easier with win 95, besides the system isn't used for anything other than this one software proggy these days.

and it's only networked so my tight boss only has to buy 1 printer :)

Thanks for the input, for safety reasons, I finally decided to use a P3/1GHz instead, as the last thing I want from a customer is calls every other days with some unknown errors, even though I have tried and tested the software here for a few days and it worked fine, just for peace of mind :)

just go and get a win95 emulator

Parahandy, if you can not understand the problem please don't try to resolve it.