From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 28 11: 6:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F55437B41B for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:06:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16K2Kc-0005Da-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 19:06:14 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id 2AD1A116E; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:06:13 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:06:13 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors? Message-ID: <20011228190613.GB1122@raggedclown.net> References: <20011228181009.F95692@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011228133613.D25749@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011228133613.D25749@freebie.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:36:13PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:10:09PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > I've been using AMD processors almost exclusively in my main work > > machines for over 4 years, and I've been very happy with them. I'm > > currently running a K6/233, a K6/333, an Athlon 750, a Duron 850 and > > an Athlon XP 1700. Last August, though, I bought a machine which gave > > me a lot of trouble, the Duron 850 mentioned above. I found that it > > would freeze for no apparent reason. I established that it wasn't the > > memory by taking the memory of another machine and running it like > > that; it made no difference. I ended up also changing the motherboard > > and the processor, but the hangs continued. I could expect a hang > > within 8 hours when doing 'make release' > > What I noticed for socketA boards is that they tend to be extremely picky > about the memory you feed them. And this is not an ElCheapo mainboard, > this is an Asus. Asus is my experience has good mainboards. > All sorts of weird crashes, sometimes only after hours of buildworld-stress > testing. Keeping everything else the same but swapping the memory > solved the issue once and for all. > I believe there is also an issue with some of the high-end Athlons running very hot. Co-incidentally I noticed in a local computer shop the other day a warning about using the right coolers for AMD processors. Next time it goes AWOL see what the Bios thinks the temperature is (if it has that possibility in it, mine does). Someone on a linux list I am on was reporting temperatures >100C !! -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message