From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Apr 14 3: 7: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ontario.mooseriver.com (ontario.mooseriver.com [208.138.31.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 115E114F64 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 03:07:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch@ontario.mooseriver.com) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by ontario.mooseriver.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id DAA32675; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 03:04:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 03:04:18 -0700 From: Josef Grosch To: zaph0d Cc: Arturas Sileikis , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6-2, K6-3 Message-ID: <19990414030418.A32617@ontario.mooseriver.com> Reply-To: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com References: <37145A75.3D9D95C@el.vtu.lt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from zaph0d on Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 05:40:41AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 05:40:41AM -0400, zaph0d wrote: > Just for reference, > > I've got a Cyrix k6-2 233 running 3.1 - and it preforms great, > except sometimes it spontaneously reboots, and other times just freezes. > There are no error messages from the kernels, as best I can tell. I also > do not have a dumpdev set. I have noticed the same problem with the AMD K6-2 233. While building a number of servers for an ISP I had a lot of trouble with the 233s. Depending on how I jumpered the motherboard for bus speed and multiplier it either spontaneously rebooted, refused to reboot from the "reboot" command, or would not compile anything without gcc getting a sig 11. When I would replace the 233 with a 300 the system would work flawlessly. I suspect that the fact that clock speed is not an even multiple of the bus speed causes a problem with some motherboards. I suggest that that you either change motherboards or go with a K6-2 300. Mine has been working flawlessly for 6 months now. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 3.1 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message