From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 28 14:59:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx04.cluster0.hsacorp.net [209.225.8.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7986037B405; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 14:59:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [24.158.214.244] (HELO gforce.johnson.home) by dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.6) with ESMTP id 794677; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:05:56 -0500 Received: (from glenn@localhost) by gforce.johnson.home (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBSMxW600511; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:59:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from glenn) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:59:31 -0600 From: Glenn Johnson To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt Cc: Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors? Message-ID: <20011228225931.GA448@gforce.johnson.home> Mail-Followup-To: Glenn Johnson , =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt , Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD Hackers References: <20011228204612.GA1226@gforce.johnson.home> <200112282212.fBSMCea36745@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200112282212.fBSMCea36745@freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:12:40PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > I have had this exact problem. I have an Epox 8KTA board with a > > 1GHz Athlon (Thunderbird) with 256MB of PC-133 memory. I would > > consistently get random errors, usually during a compilation, using > > the default BIOS settings. After fiddling with some of the BIOS > > options, such as enabling PCI burst, the system runs pretty stable. > > However, occasionally I will get that freeze that you refer to > > during a buildworld. As far as I can tell though if I set the > > memory clock to 100MHz the problem goes away completely, or at least > > I have not observed it happen yet. > > I have a 8kta3+ here that has problems with some of the PC133 512Mb > modules I got cheaply earlier this year, the problem was solved when > I swithed of "page mode" in the BIOS, it then runs 100% stable even > overclocked at 145Mhz and CAS2 which the modules shouldn't even > support. Thanks, I will give that a try. > > It is really hard for me to say if this is FreeBSD specific because > > I do not tend to stress the system much when I have Linux running. > > My wife has an identical system running Windows 98SE and she has no > > problems but I know that I have installed software from Epox that > > specifically addresses some issues with the VIA chipset so that may > > be why. > > > From what I can tell the newest Epox BIOS for the 8kta3 does *not* > > install the 686b fix when it doesn't detect a SBLive! sound card, nice > but not good enough :/ Yes, that seems to be the case. I just checked the Epox Web site and the BIOS revision of 04/17/2001 for the 8KTA has the following bullet point: * Fixed VIA KT133/A/E + 686B issue copying large sized files on * E/IDE devices with a SB Live sound card installed. No further mention of the issue is made for later BIOS revisions. For the software I referred to above, I was referring to Windows software that includes fixes for the OS drivers. They call it VIA Apollo 4-in-1 (a.k.a. VIA ServicePack). I am not really up on Windows behavior but my impression was that this software was necessary to enable UDMA. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message