Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:51:30 -0600 From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> To: FreeBSD hardware <hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: page mode memory setting and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020111195130.GA32800@gforce.johnson.home>
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I have an Athlon system with a VIA KT133A chipset. I was having occasional crashes when my PC-133 memory was set to 133MHz (stable at 100MHz). Søren Schmidt suggested turning off page-mode access in the BIOS setup. This has eliminated the problem (thus far) and I did not notice any degradation of performance. However, my wife has an identical system in terms of hardware but she is running Windows 98SE. I decided to turn off page-mode access on her machine but Windows slowed to a crawl. Turning page-mode access back on brought the machine back up to speed. I am curious why this would be. Apparently FreeBSD and Windows make use of the BIOS settings in different ways. Thanks. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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