Holy shit. I feel like this neatly explains why Windows 95 was an utter crash-fest on the computer I bought just before my freshman year of highschool. With an AMD K6-2 running at 350Mhz, it was the first computer I had that was all new components instead of the franken-sytems built from a dumpster-dive base and other dumpster-dived components grafted on. The shop I bought it from initially put 95 OSR2 on it. And it did like to crash. It wasn't until I started using Windows 98SE that I started to see anything resembling stability, and not need to re-install every other month.
If only I had known about AMDK6UPD.EXE back then and been able to understand the reasons behind the crash and why the patch fixed things.
If only I had known about AMDK6UPD.EXE back then and been able to understand the reasons behind the crash and why the patch fixed things.