Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 21:11:51 +0100 From: Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com> To: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Lockups with -Stable on Athlon Message-ID: <3AF70187.8241624D@witchspace.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0105071515070.2823-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>
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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 <http://www.witchspace.com>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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