Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:05:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: sporkl@ix.netcom.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware woes - AMD K6/2-300 (?) Message-ID: <19990121120545.Q15785@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <31025.916877934@monkeys.com>; from Ronald F. Guilmette on Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 04:18:54PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901201539570.306-100000@PigStuy.nws.net> <31025.916877934@monkeys.com>
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On Wednesday, 20 January 1999 at 16:18:54 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901201539570.306-100000@PigStuy.nws.net>, you wrote: > >> I have used 2.2.8 on an AMD k6/2-300 system. >> Signal 11 is segmentation fault, so it would appear that this would be a >> memory problem. Is your motherboard's memory configuration compatible with >> the memory you are using? > > Yes. I have just learned however that there was a known problem with the > earlier (pre-C) steppings of the AMD-K6/2 which causes them to be unreliable > when used with more than 32MB of memory. This has now been confirmed for > me by AMD. If you're referring to the stuff you told me about in private mail, no, this referred *only* to the K6/1. I've been running a later K6/1-233 for over a year now. I had problems with it at the beginning, but they disappeared completely when I installed a bigger fan. You'll note that just about all the replies agree that there are no problems with AMD. > My system has 64MB in it. > > The processor that _I_ bought (as part of a complete system) apparently is > of the `A' stepping vintage - it has the bug. I'm pretty sure that this is not the case. > Of course, the dealer I bought it from claims that hs has no AMD K6/2-300s > which are any later than stepping `A' and that his distributor also has none > of any later stepping... Translation? I got screwed. Are there any B steppings yet? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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