Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:12:40 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors? Message-ID: <200112282212.fBSMCea36745@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20011228204612.GA1226@gforce.johnson.home>
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It seems Glenn Johnson wrote: > I have had this exact problem. I have an Epox 8KTA board with a > 1GHz Athlon (Thunderbird) with 256MB of PC-133 memory. I would > consistently get random errors, usually during a compilation, using > the default BIOS settings. After fiddling with some of the BIOS > options, such as enabling PCI burst, the system runs pretty stable. > However, occasionally I will get that freeze that you refer to during a > buildworld. As far as I can tell though if I set the memory clock to > 100MHz the problem goes away completely, or at least I have not observed > it happen yet. I have a 8kta3+ here that has problems with some of the PC133 512Mb modules I got cheaply earlier this year, the problem was solved when I swithed of "page mode" in the BIOS, it then runs 100% stable even overclocked at 145Mhz and CAS2 which the modules shouldn't even support. > It is really hard for me to say if this is FreeBSD specific because I do > not tend to stress the system much when I have Linux running. My wife > has an identical system running Windows 98SE and she has no problems > but I know that I have installed software from Epox that specifically > addresses some issues with the VIA chipset so that may be why. From what I can tell the newest Epox BIOS for the 8kta3 does *not* install the 686b fix when it doesn't detect a SBLive! sound card, nice but not good enough :/ -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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