Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:44:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Chris Wasser <cwasser@v-wave.com> Cc: Dirk Zoller <duz@onlinehome.de>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: microuptime went backwards on Athlon Message-ID: <20000601104422.B20158@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200006010025.SAA03937@slash.ab.videon.ca> References: <20000601094422.C16657@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200006010025.SAA03937@slash.ab.videon.ca>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > On Wednesday, 31 May 2000 at 18:25:55 -0600, Chris Wasser wrote: > X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) Do you know that your mailer is giving you a line length of up to 134 characters? It's a pain to read. > On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:44:22 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Thursday, 1 June 2000 at 11:00:09 +0200, Dirk Zoller wrote: >>> yesterday I changed my mainboard/CPU to an EPOX 7KXA and an Athlon 700. >>> Before I had an K6-2/450 and few problems (at least not the following). > > Actually, I think I was one of the first people to mention this > problem (search through the mailing list archives), and PHK was > gratious enough to try and help me work it out with little success > however. I also talked to Greg on IRC about it as well, and it was > my understanding it was fixed in 5.0-C I had this problem with 5-CURRENT. > .. I've since dumped all my Epox 7KXA's and went with ASUS K7V's, a > much nicer board. Greg also forwarded me a email which I think he(?) > sent to Epox detailing the problem and they were less then > responsive to the suitation with comments like, "It's possible you > may have received one of the few boards which might have problems, > but it's extremely unlikely" (badly paraphrased) so they don't seem > real interested in fixing their broken stuff. No, that's not correct. I didn't receive a reply. > I read elsewhere on this mailing list that the ABIT KA7's have a > similar problem, perhaps it's the KX133 chipset itself at fault. For > the time being, I'm sticking with the AMD 750/751 chipsets. I personally think that we might have a bug in FreeBSD. The KX133 chipset is interesting because it's so much faster than the Irongate, and it is possible to get them to work correctly, so I don't see any reason to dump the motherboard. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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