Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:01:41 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Munish Chopra <mchopra@engmail.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors? Message-ID: <3C2CDDB5.40804@owt.com> References: <20011228181009.F95692@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011228205207.GA58913@daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org>
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Munish Chopra wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:10:09PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>I've been using AMD processors almost exclusively in my main work >>machines for over 4 years, and I've been very happy with them. I'm >>currently running a K6/233, a K6/333, an Athlon 750, a Duron 850 and >>an Athlon XP 1700. Last August, though, I bought a machine which gave >>me a lot of trouble, the Duron 850 mentioned above. I found that it >>would freeze for no apparent reason. I established that it wasn't the >>memory by taking the memory of another machine and running it like >>that; it made no difference. I ended up also changing the motherboard >>and the processor, but the hangs continued. I could expect a hang >>within 8 hours when doing 'make release' >> >> > > I'm running an AMD Thunderbird 1200 on an ECS-K7S5A (SiS 735 chipset), > with 256 MB DDR SDRAM installed. I experience random reboots with that > system, though I have had a few people on -questions tell me to make > sure my cards are properly seated as the ECS boards seem to be very > picky about that (I still don't believe that is the reason). I'm going > to check out the RAM later today, but I'm not really sure what is wrong > with that machine. > > My first two AMD machines, a K6-2 350 on as ASUS-P5A and a Duron 800 on > an ASUS-A7V will just freeze after booting and showing the login prompt > (this happens around once every ten boots or so). No problmes under > Windows. A friend of mine running the same motherboard with WinXP also > experiences random reboots though, so I'm hoping a BIOS update might > work some magic, though the fixes list doesn't hint at this. Most other > people I've talked to consider their ECS boards rock-solid. > > >>Just for the fun of it, I tried running Linux on it. I've been >> > > Didn't do that, wouldn't know if the problems also exist under Linux. > > Anyway, that was my experience. The ATA100 controller on the board is > only recognized as an ATA33 controller, but I'll be sending Soeren > whatever he needs shortly in hope of fixing that. He already has code to recognize the SiS-735 chipset and many more SiS versions in -current. They just haven't been MFC'ed. Look for 55131039 in ata-pci.c and ata-dma.c. Kent > > If anyone has even a hint as to what else could be causing these > reboots, I'd very much appreciate it (-questions didn't really come up > with much). > > And before I forget, the machine is running 4.4-STABLE. > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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