From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 4 13: 1:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from akira.lanfear.com (akira.lanfear.com [208.12.11.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BC8637B401 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 13:01:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from sapporo.lanfear.com (h-64-105-36-216.snvacaid.covad.net [64.105.36.216]) by akira.lanfear.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA76490; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 13:01:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlist@lanfear.com) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 13:01:01 -0800 (PST) From: Marc W Message-Id: <200102042101.NAA76490@akira.lanfear.com> To: David Kelly Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD tanks on an Athlon 750 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Kiltdown 0.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ----------------------------- > From: David Kelly > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message