From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 7 12:26: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from veldy.net (w028.z064001117.msp-mn.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.117.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D98A37B423 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 12:26:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from veldy@veldy.net) Received: from HP2500B (fuggle.veldy.net [64.1.117.28]) by veldy.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 23E1FBAA2 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 14:24:35 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <003501c0d72b$640245d0$3028680a@tgt.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: References: <200105071556.f47Fu1N16065@quarter.csl.sri.com> Subject: Re: Lockups with -Stable on Athlon Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 14:24:52 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I've got a 700 MHz Athlon on a Soyo motherboard (Fry's special) with > 128M of pc133 memory. The CPU has a big heat sink (one of those > circular kind that looks like a nuclear reactor). I found that I > could get a stable system by reducing the memory speed to 100 Mhz -- > the motherboard allows running the memory at 133 Mhz with the CPU > running at 7 X 100Mhz. That used to work OK but not any more. It is pretty well know that you should not run an Athlon system with generic memory. Namebrand only. Micron is my recommendation. No problems here on my 600. ABIT KA7-100 motherboard. Tom Veldhouse veldy@veldy.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message