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Date:      Fri, 27 Dec 1996 12:09:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        ttsai@pobox.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 512K L2 cache problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961227120902.2459B-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199612271113.FAA22611@edison.ebicom.net>

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On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Tim Tsai wrote:

>   Is anybody running an Asus motherboard (specifically one with 430HX
> chipset) with 512K of L2 cache?  I recently ordered 6 of these
> motherboards with 256K built-in and an additional 256K on a module and
> every one will crash FreeBSD 2.1.6 with the 256K module attached.  It
> doesn't seem to have that problem with Windows 95 but I took the module
> out anyway, just to be safe.  The following scenarios will crash it
> everytime:
> 
>   512K Cache, MB set to use 512K Cache, BIOS Cache enabled
>   512K Cache, MB set to use 256K Cache, BIOS Cache enabled

How does it crash?

It's possible Asus got a batch of bad modules.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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