>>Cyrix and AMD processors are essentially Intel Clones.
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>>MSDE will work just fine.
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>>>Will the MSDE run on PC's with Cyrix or AMD CPU's?
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>There was a problem installing SQL Server 7.0 on machines using older Cyrix processors. I had one machine that required a processor change before 7.0 would install. Don't know if this will apply to MSDE or not.

There were problems with some of the early Cyrix Pentium clones; they did not implement some of the protected mode instruction set in early maskings, but AFAIK, this was corrected several yeas ago, and is not a problem with the current Cyrix M2 chips, or the IBM-fabricated Cyrix M1 chips.