From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 3 15:33:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-56-129.knology.net [24.214.56.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F1937B491 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 15:33:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f13NWQN21795; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 17:32:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200102032332.f13NWQN21795@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Marc W Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: FreeBSD tanks on an Athlon 750 In-reply-to: Message from Marc W of "Sat, 03 Feb 2001 10:31:19 PST." <200102031831.KAA74179@akira.lanfear.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 17:32:26 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marc W writes: > > > > Most obvious question is what is the status/size of the CPU cache? Is > > it disabled in BIOS? > > The motherboard is an Asus K7M -- there are jumpers, but they default > to being not used, and the motherboard/BIOS automatically detects and > sets the bus to 100Mhz. I tried changing it to 150 and got the message > "warning -- the CPU has been having [sic] overclocked!!!!" It sounds stupid but try the option for "restore factory defaults" in the BIOS. After that add your personal tweaks. There are parameters that can be reset in the BIOS but do not have user interfaces. I had no end of trouble with an Asus P6NP5 and its floppy interface under FreeBSD until I tried that on a lark. Of course it worked fine with MS stuff all along. It does sound a lot like your BIOS and CPU don't like each other. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message