Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 04:16:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Arnold <tom@inna.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, root@meeko.eecs.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: AMD K6 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970718041024.26015B-100000@caught.inna.net> In-Reply-To: <16138.868840695@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> We've been totally unable to get the K6 to work reliably, nor have any
> of the folks we've been talking to had much luck - the symptoms are
> basically the same in each case, signal 11s all over the place and
> make world failures. What's weirder is that it will often work just
> fine for days or weeks, the initial make world tests going fine, and
> then it will just stop, no make world making it through from that
> point on. I'd never seen a CPU fail due to heat death, but it sure
> seems like the only explanation here. What's more worrisome is that
> the other 4 testers had exactly the same thing happen.
igor.inna.net has been running a K6-166 since 2 weeks before introduction
without problem. In that time period I've done a half-dozen make worlds
for various ( mostly dumb ) reasons.
Two things I had to do to make things happy and also as fast as possible.
1. Upgrade the motherboard BIOS even when the initial BIOS supposedly
supported the K6.
2. SDRAM vs FPM.
I actually think #2 was due to flaky FPM ram.
In any case, no problems at all.
Motherboard : Machspeed VX ( www.machspeed.com )
Cooling Fan : CoolerMaster Cyrix-Rated Fan. AND DONT FORGET THE HEAT XFER
COMPOUND.
I've had more customers have problems cause their cheap-ass cooling fans
weren't machined perfectly flat and the K6's aluminum lid doesn't help
much at all either. A little Dow Corning nasty-white-birddroppings
coloured heatsink compound solves more problems then most places like to
admit...
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