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Date:      Mon, 7 May 2001 14:24:52 -0500
From:      "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
To:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Lockups with -Stable on Athlon 
Message-ID:  <003501c0d72b$640245d0$3028680a@tgt.com>
References:  <200105071556.f47Fu1N16065@quarter.csl.sri.com>

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> I've got a 700 MHz Athlon on a Soyo motherboard (Fry's special) with
> 128M of pc133 memory.  The CPU has a big heat sink (one of those
> circular kind that looks like a nuclear reactor).  I found that I
> could get a stable system by reducing the memory speed to 100 Mhz --
> the motherboard allows running the memory at 133 Mhz with the CPU
> running at 7 X 100Mhz.  That used to work OK but not any more.

It is pretty well know that you should not run an Athlon system with generic
memory.  Namebrand only.  Micron is my recommendation.  No problems here on
my 600.  ABIT KA7-100 motherboard.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@veldy.net




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