Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:05:21 -0800 From: Bernhard Beck <bbeck@mindmaker.com> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> Cc: Michael Bretterklieber <mbretter@inode.at>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon Thunderbird 700 w. Asus K7M Motherboard vs. FreeBSD 4.2 Message-ID: <3A5F3951.9932EED5@mindmaker.com> References: <3A5F1F43.EE70CB3C@inode.at> <20010112161044.A97484@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <009e01c07cb7$132d9e30$3028680a@tgt.com>
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AMD made a few Slot A Thunderbirds. As far as I know they were meant for the OEM market (so that the system integrator has to make sure it works with their environment), but some CPU's made it into retail. There were various incompatibilities with the existing Slot A motherboards. The CPU may work in one Slot A motherboard, but not in others. c't (a german computer magazine) published an article about this last year. Bernhard "Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote: > > I wasn't aware that they made any Slot A Thuderbird processors. I believe a > Thunderbird will only run with the KT133 chipset (or better) or the AMD-760 > chipset and not the AMD-750/751 chipset. Are you sure that CPU is what you > think it is? > > Tom Veldhouse > veldy@veldy.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Malone" <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> > To: "Michael Bretterklieber" <mbretter@inode.at> > Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.org> > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 10:10 AM > Subject: Re: Athlon Thunderbird 700 w. Asus K7M Motherboard vs. FreeBSD 4.2 > > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:14:11PM +0100, Michael Bretterklieber wrote: > > > > > I have problems with my Athlon Thunderbird 700 on an Asus K7M > > > Motherboard > > > (Bios 1009) and FreeBSD 4.2. > > > The system is very very slow, like on an old 386. I have this problems > > > since I updatet from an Athlon 500 to this Athlon Thunderbird 700. I > > > have on the same Harddisk Win98 and Win2K and they work without > > > problems, fast and stable. > > > This situation is disastrous for me, because I had to work under > > > FreeBSD, so I hope, that somebody can help. > > > > I wonder if it could be a problem with the BIOS not setting up the > > MTRR registers correctly. I have seen problems (on SMP machines) > > where the BIOS was not setting up the MTRR registers on some of > > the CPUs weren't caching any of memory. FreeBSD has a work around > > for this in the SMP case, but maybe not in the single processor > > case. > > > > I'd try looking for a BIOS upgrade, as it may be a problem with > > the old BIOS not initialising the new processor. > > > > David. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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