Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 17:38:15 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU Cc: FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, root@meeko.eecs.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: AMD K6 Message-ID: <16138.868840695@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Jul 1997 15:39:12 PDT." <199707132239.PAA28695@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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> I ma currently test driving an AMD K6/200 in a > FIC PA-2005 motherboard and I am getting a lot of crashes. > (actually it looks like a reset, no cores, no console messages > just a spontaneous reboot). I am wondering if anyone has seen > the K6 do similar things. The vendor says "The K6 does support > UNIX", but I am inclined to believe that he doesn't have a clue. > I am thinking I will return the K6 and get a Cyrix M2, any thoughts? 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. Anyway, FreeBSD, Inc. now owns an expensive piece of chip jewelry from AMD since our 30 day return period also elapsed during testing. :( Jordan
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