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2005-01-12 02:16:59 AM
cppbuilder8
Hi All,
Most of my development is in C++ builder 6. Has anyone had any problem
running it and the exe generated on a amd 64 bit cpu?
I will be getting a new laptop and I am looking at the acer ferrari 3400
which has an amd 64 3000+ chip.
I am just worried cause I think I remember reading about people having
trouble compiling there projects when using an amd 64 bit cpu.
Has anyone had problem with this combination?
Thanks,
Marc
 

Marc,
Most customers who ran into the freezing problem early on (when using BCB6
with the Athlon64 and Opteron64) eventually discovered that it was due to
the "errata 109" issue on the CPU side. I believe there is a BIOS update
which addresses that (what I don't know is if the update is already
incorporated into the newer chips).
That having been said, BCB6 is not officially supported on the 64-bit AMDs.
-- YH --
 

Hi,
Recently, I become a happy user of Processor Athlon64
3200+, motherboard MSI K8N Neo. BCB6 doesn't
complain about that, either I read many articles about some
problems that may occure. The problems were solvable as
far as I can remember.
Best regards,
Vladimir Stefanovic
"Marc Ouellette" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message

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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:16:59 -0500, Marc Ouellette
< XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote:
Asus K8V-X motherboard
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200 GB SATA harddisk
256 DDR DIMM (PC-3200)
Radeon 9250 128MB graphics card (brand is Club)
Latest Asus bios is installed as is SATA-driver. Operating system is W2000
(windows updates installed last week).
System compiles projects (either by choosing build or make from ide) (I
have tried several old ones) ok but BCB freezes when I press run-button.
If I start the produced executable from windows using command prompt and
use Run|Attach to Process debugging works ok. It would we nice to use IDE
all the time ... .
Next I am going to try using Kylix (Ubuntu 64 bit linux installed, will
try it first).
All help really welcome, this machine is my new home computer and it would
be nice to use BCB home too.
seismo malm