From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 12:51:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EBE937B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:51:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (p62.246.112.54.tisdip.tiscali.de [62.246.112.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F6A43FB1 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:51:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.12.8/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h2QKpLhK035635; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 21:51:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.jennejohn.org) Message-Id: <200303262051.h2QKpLhK035635@peedub.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.3 To: jay desjardins In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:18:18 EST." <3E820B0A.3BA3959A@enc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 21:51:21 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-19.5 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon to XP woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:51:44 -0000 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. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org gj@denx.de