Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:29:58 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> Cc: Chris <kingsqueak@home.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Signal 11 on 4-Stable buildworld; bad memory or what? Message-ID: <3973B316.C4442AAF@urx.com> References: <20000717223751.3846.qmail@web3105.mail.yahoo.com> <20000717192441.A44452@kingsqueak.org> <20000717173708.A13211@manatee.mammalia.org>
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R Joseph Wright wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 07:24:41PM -0400, Chris wrote: > > I like the AMD's, have a K6-3/450 here with a really heavy Alpha > > heatsink on it and a 27cfm bearing fan. Even with that fan... it just > > doesn't like make buildworld or building X without the case cover off > > though. Though it's not a small problem... it still performs well for me > > overall. My older K6/2 200 here can build all day no problem...the new > > ones just got really hot. > > > > I actually had to give up on fbsd for my work desktop because the > > cheapie fan on the K6/2 450 I have just wouldn't cut it, even with the > > case off and the thing would just plain reboot on any moderate sized > > builds. I just don't have the time at the office to mess with it and my > > workstation is a management station of sorts as well. > > I had these problems with my K6/2 450 until I finally got out the sandpaper > and lapped both the CPU and the heatsink. The heatsink needed it much worse > than the CPU. I have had only one reboot since I did that while loading the > system heavily with an X build. Even one reboot is not good, but it's much > better than it was. They weren't flat or what. I found I could cook the heat transfer tape using an overclocked Celeron. I replaced the tape with heatsink compound but doing a build of XFree86 3.3.4 had finished cooking the cpu. I remember reading before where you did that and was going to ask you why. > > www.pcpowercooling.com sells heavy duty heatsink/fans for many processors > including the K6/2. If my problems ever return I plan to buy one from them. Another place is http://www.3dfxcool.com/. He has some fans that look like they would lift the case off if you weren't using the cpu as a thrust reverser. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire. http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/bomber.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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