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Date:      Wed, 26 Mar 2003 21:51:21 +0100
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
To:        jay desjardins <desjardj@enc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Athlon to XP woes 
Message-ID:  <200303262051.h2QKpLhK035635@peedub.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:18:18 EST." <3E820B0A.3BA3959A@enc.edu> 

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jay desjardins writes:
> We have an  asus A7V133 that had a 1.2 and 256 megs or memory. It's
> happily running 4.7 stable. I wanted to put an athlon XP chip and 1 gig
> more memory. The first thing I did was update the bios and then
> installed the chip and memory. Then when starting it got core dumps all
> over (sendmail getty, ect.). Then I removed the memory and still got the
> dumps. After I replaced the chip (XP1700) with the 1.2 and all the dumps
> stopped.  When upgrading to a chip like that (athlon to XP) do I need to
> do something different to BSD so it will not flake out.
> 

Did you also upgrade the CPU cooler? This sounds like overheating to me.

I've gone from a 1.2 MHz Athlon-C to a 1800+ XP w/o any problem, but I
bought a new cooler.

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Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org gj@denx.de



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