Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 13:01:01 -0800 (PST) From: Marc W <mwlist@lanfear.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD tanks on an Athlon 750 Message-ID: <200102042101.NAA76490@akira.lanfear.com>
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> From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
> Sent: 02/03/01 17:32>
> It sounds stupid but try the option for "restore factory defaults" in
> the BIOS. After that add your personal tweaks. There are parameters that
> can be reset in the BIOS but do not have user interfaces. I had no end
> of trouble with an Asus P6NP5 and its floppy interface under FreeBSD
> until I tried that on a lark. Of course it worked fine with MS stuff
> all along.
>
> It does sound a lot like your BIOS and CPU don't like each other.
Something ain't quite right. I told the BIOS to reset itself and set all the settings for optimal performance, and then I held down the INS key on reboot. The Solaris OS booted up turbo quick, and was suddenly zippy fast again.
I then rebooted, and switched the boot device in the BIOS to be the SCSI drives with FreeBSD. Suddenly it tanks again.
Super wacky. I think I'll just make this a winders machine and take the 1GHz processor that the fiancee is runnign win2k with for a real os :-0
thanks for all the suggestions!
marc.
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