Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:19:44 -0600 (CST) From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <poseiden@leviathan.inethouston.net> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Michael Bretterklieber <mbretter@inode.at>, <stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Athlon Thunderbird 700 w. Asus K7M Motherboard vs. FreeBSD 4.2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101121017550.22921-100000@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <20010112161044.A97484@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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I had this same motherboard with a 600Mhz. Although I haven't had any other cpu's in it, it didn't seem to run slow for me with the 600 I had in it in either windows98 or FreeBSD. I had the same bios version too. On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, David Malone wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:14:11PM +0100, Michael Bretterklieber wrote: > > > I have problems with my Athlon Thunderbird 700 on an Asus K7M > > Motherboard > > (Bios 1009) and FreeBSD 4.2. > > The system is very very slow, like on an old 386. I have this problems > > since I updatet from an Athlon 500 to this Athlon Thunderbird 700. I > > have on the same Harddisk Win98 and Win2K and they work without > > problems, fast and stable. > > This situation is disastrous for me, because I had to work under > > FreeBSD, so I hope, that somebody can help. > > I wonder if it could be a problem with the BIOS not setting up the > MTRR registers correctly. I have seen problems (on SMP machines) > where the BIOS was not setting up the MTRR registers on some of > the CPUs weren't caching any of memory. FreeBSD has a work around > for this in the SMP case, but maybe not in the single processor > case. > > I'd try looking for a BIOS upgrade, as it may be a problem with > the old BIOS not initialising the new processor. > > David. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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