Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 20:58:12 +0100 From: Rob Schofield <schofiel@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SV: puh!(PC hardware) Message-ID: <365B0FD4.1E31@xs4all.nl> References: <000f01be17e3$d8e73a40$4dc2c6c3@prutten>
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Stefan Lindgren wrote: > > Hi again. > > Just remvoved the second CPU. Works like a charm.:-( > > Any ideas?(blown CPU?) > Some special, hidden APIC I/O config? Different stepping of each CPU, rather than the same? And before everyone says "Old wives's tale", I have just had recent (and *very expensive*) experience that this needs to be the case - the same stepping, that is. Under NT I was getting blue screens and all sorts of weird stuff; under FBSD I was getting failure to shutdown, corrupted disks, downright disobedience at the command line, "freezes" in X, and other weirdness. Both processors changed for the same stepping, and *ping* (magic wand noise) all fixed.... Rob Schofield -- The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Scheduling: The first ninety percent of the job takes ninety percent of the allotted time, the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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