I have run into this before albeit once or twice & I concur.
Ive had to slow systems down to a bare crawl before to make things like this work
The manufacturers are exactly right, the processor is too fast to run the software.
If you want to go that far disable the on board caches. I wouldnt though.
Its a Pentium so you cant slow the boot speed down in the BIOS
Afraid it aint gonna work!!
Anyone thats writing for DOS needs to do a reality check