From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 7 13:11:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96D437B422 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 13:11:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@witchspace.com) Received: from witchspace.com ([213.105.80.222]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20010507201110.OFNM283.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@witchspace.com>; Mon, 7 May 2001 21:11:10 +0100 Message-ID: <3AF70187.8241624D@witchspace.com> Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 21:11:51 +0100 From: Jonathan Belson Organization: Jon's Place X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris BeHanna Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Lockups with -Stable on Athlon References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris BeHanna wrote: > > Yes, that's what seems strange. My heatsink is quite large and > > feels cool to touch. I'm wondering if my PSU is being overstretched > > since it's 250W, but I haven't really got a huge amount in the > ^^^^ > > machine - but again, why do the other OSes work fine? > > AMD specs a 400W power supply for a T-bird. I don't know why the > other OSes work fine, but I would not try much more in the > hair-pulling department until you upgrade to an in-spec. power supply. From the AMD web site, recommended power supplies for up to 1.2GHz processors start at 300W. Upgrading to a meatier PSU was on my list of things to try, but I thought I'd check to see if anyone else was having similar problems first. > As for me, I'm using PC2100 RAM (133Mhz DDR). If you are > overclocking your memory, then instability is not to be unexpected. :-/ I'm not overclocking anything. -- C-YA Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message