From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 14 7:12: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk (yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA0EF37B42C for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 07:12:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmi25@cam.ac.uk) Received: from fennec.chu.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.250.98]) by yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14zJ4o-0004lj-00; Mon, 14 May 2001 15:11:58 +0100 Received: from jmi (helo=localhost) by fennec.chu.cam.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #2) id 14zJC1-00006t-00; Mon, 14 May 2001 15:19:25 +0100 Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:19:25 +0100 (BST) From: Jonathan Irwin To: Raymond Wiker Cc: Subject: Re: New installation failure In-Reply-To: <15103.41581.465952.473525@raw.grenland.fast.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 14 May 2001, Raymond Wiker wrote: > Try reducing the processor speed down to 400 MHz, possibly in > combination with reducing the core voltage. It may also be that your > processor fan has stopped working, or is not working properly, or that > various ribbon cables obstruct the airflow around the processor. > > I had a similar problem with one of the first batch of > K6/2-450's (the ones that required 2.4 Vcore; later units run with > 2.2Vcore). First part of the solution was to reduce the processor > speed down to 400MHz; part two was replacing the motherboard and the > processor :-) Yes, I've had the same with a K6/2-500 (2.2 Vcore), it gave loads of sig11s until I underclocked to 450, no problems since. Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message