Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:27:45 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon and 4.2 Release Message-ID: <200101170127.f0H1RjE15693@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr> of "Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:42:01 %2B0100." <20010116104201.B503@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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Michel Talon writes: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 08:40:23PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > > For this MB to run reliably under load I had to select "BIOS Defaults", > > and maybe also "System Performance Setting" from "Optimal" to "Normal". > > Also disabled "PCI Master Read Caching" and "Delayed Transaction". > > Something in there was causing problems under load. The situation might > > also surface during installation. > > Strange because i have here installed FreeBSD 4.2-Stable on an Abit KT7 Raid > which has the same chipset, and runs an Athlon 1.1 Ghz. I have loaded all > optimal settings in the Bios to enhance speed, and all works beautifully, > including UDMA speed for the disk (here a Western Digital). I probably incorrectly placed the blame completely on the MB when I don't really know my PCI cards are PCI 2.2 compliant, or what that involves. I think the BIOS values I tweaked to produce a reliable system were PCI related. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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