Please anyone tell me if:
AMD Atlhon-b T-bird, needs to many patches to execute Windows 2000 & Office and other Microsoft stuff (DAMN Microsoft.
It is true that the Atlhon needs a hole bucnh of fixes and patches?

THANKS-

Errr...

My TBIRD800 was running w2k fine before I broke the die on the chip... No patches at all, just sweetness!

Tom...

AMD doesn't give out patches. It's crappy VIA chipsets. all you need is the VIA 4 in 1 drivers, probably the newest BIOS for your motherboard and newest graphics drivers. But all this you would need on any computer system. I don't see the big deal in downloading new drivers.

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Bill Gates, 1980s

There is one patch of which I am aware. It concerns an AGP problem on AMD systems with Win2K. The problem is <b>not chipset specific</b>. Read about it at the AMD website.

<A HREF="http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon-duron/amd_win2k_patch.html" target="_new">http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon-duron/amd_win2k_patch.html</A>

Perhaps you are talking about drivers. As with any system it is helpful to have up-to-date drivers, including chipset, AGP, IDE bus, graphics, and others. Once this is done AMD systems work well.

My T-Bird 750 wouldnt Run win2k untill I got the Promise ATA 100 Driver from ASUS (i have an asus a7v) . Win2k Treats the promise ata 100 as a scsi device. Other then that it runs great =)

--Brendan

Good call on that patch!
I've seen it advertised on websites, but all of them recommended it for the 'irongate' chipsets.