From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 22:01:07 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA18362 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 22:01:07 -0700 Received: from picspc01.pics.com (picspc01.pics.com [192.135.189.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA18357 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 22:01:03 -0700 Received: (from tpr@localhost) by picspc01.pics.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id BAA00680 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 01:00:58 -0400 From: Terry Rossi Message-Id: <199510040500.BAA00680@picspc01.pics.com> Subject: New CPU/MB Problems To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 01:00:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1359 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have just upgraded my trusty ALR 386/220 (yes 20mhz) motherboard to a new Alaris MB with IBM Blue Lightning CPU. I have noticed a few oddity which I hoped the group could enlighten me on. 1) Enabling an external cache in the CMOS causes a panic during the memory test. 2) When switching between virtual consoles I notice that the cursor remains positioned where it was on the last vc for about the first 3 seconds. This never happened on the 386, same video and monitor. 3) I upgraded to the 16mb 486/66 because I could not get my tape backup to work (Colorado 350) with the ft driver. When doing tar -czvf - /etc |ft "etc tar" I would get all kinds of bad things the most descriptive being "No Pages?" so I assumed that memory was tight. With the extra 6mb of RAM I still have this same symtom with the tar/ft command. I need to get a backup so that I can upgrade to 2.0.5 or 2.1 at this rate. Does anyone have any ideas on this. 4) The probe section on the boot up reports this RTC BIOS error, any ideas FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Oct 3 23:48:05 EDT 1995 root@pics.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/PICS RTC BIOS diagnostic error 3 CPU: Cy486DLC (486-class CPU) Origin = "Cyrix" real memory = 16384000 (4000 pages) avail memory = 14921728 (3643 pages) using 290 buffers containing 2379776 bytes of memory Probing for devices on the ISA bus: