Date: 05 Jul 1999 09:46:50 -0400 From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is painfully slow on my 486 Message-ID: <87r9mn5hv9.fsf@main.wgaf.net> In-Reply-To: Ladavac Marino's message of "Mon, 05 Jul 1999 10:48:28 %2B0200" References: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796CD@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>
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Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> writes: > > Only to be sure. In older 486er times all motherboards had a > > mysterious > > switch called "THE TURBO SWITCH" if this isnt triggered the system > > runs > > only at 8MHZ speed or so. > [ML] We've covered that already. FYI, if the turbo is not > connected, it defaults to on. OTOH, '486 cannot change the clock > frequency on the fly (it has lotsa DRAM storage in it), what the turbo > switch did was to disable L2 cache. And that is exactly what the > original poster did in his BIOS--he had L2 cache always disabled. Well, the saddest thing is that the computer died yesterday (won't boot saying there's "Keyboard controller error", and sarcastically offering me to "Press F1 to continue"). All that trying to get it work fast got wasted in the end. :^( -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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