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Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 12:02:00 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Greg Work <Greg@FatCanary.com.au>
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Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550
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On Sunday,  2 July 2000 at 11:47:51 +0930, Greg Work wrote:
> (mutilated description of hardware-related problems with AMD K6-2 deleted)
> hmm....
>
> how easy is it to install an earlier 3.x ?  (3.0-RELEASE -->
> 3.2-RELEASE) it would be interesting to see if that fixes the
> problem

I don't think that would be very interesting.  All versions of FreeBSD
run with the K6-2.

> unfortunately - i dont have any spare HD's to stick it on - or i
> would try it
>
> i tell you what - this was *REALLY* getting me bugged - i thought i had
> fried the CPU / MB somehow...

It's not that serious.  I'd guess memory problems, or probably BIOS
settings.

Greg
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