Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:32:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Nicole Harrington." <nicole@unixgirl.com> To: Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: overheating AMD K6-2 400 Message-ID: <XFMail.000825203216.nicole@unixgirl.com> In-Reply-To: <20000825104639.A51927@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov>
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If you are anywhere near a Fry's store, they have a very nice heat sink unit
being sold for a Pent III or Zeon type of CPU, but it works fine for all socket
7 CPU's I have tried.
It is huge... but very nice. It is gold, and round with the fan inside.
I recommend it to anyone with heat problems on a socket 7.
Also make sure your voltage setting is correct for that CPU.
Nicole
On 25-Aug-00 Glenn Johnson wrote:
> About a year ago I purchased an AMD K6-2 400 MHz processor for my
> FreeBSD system at home. It had been working fine until recently. The
> last two months I have been seeing some rather strange problems like
> corrupted files from cvsup, bad dependencies from a buildworld even with
> a fresh object tree, and signals 4 and 10 during compilation. The last
> week I have had two spontaneous reboots which caused severe file system
> damage.
>
> I knew it was hardware trouble and I finally pinned it down to the
> CPU. The problems definitely start showing up after the CPU has warmed
> up a bit. It is obviously a thermal problem or at least temperature is
> a factor. I checked to make sure that the CPU fan was working and it
> is. I remembered people on the FreeBSD lists saying that they had to
> underclock there AMD K6-2s to get them stable so I clocked this one down
> to 350. The problems took a little longer to surface but still do. I
> should mention that the motherboard is a FIC VA503+ and the system had
> never been overclocked. I pulled the CPU out and put my old Cyrix 133
> 6x86-MX chip in. This is working fine but is slow of course.
>
> My questions are: Does it sound like the AMD chip is shot or can I try
> to enhance the cooling somehow and still use it? Or would I be better
> off getting another CPU? If I get another CPU should I get another AMD
> or should I go with one of the Cyrix MII models? I would want to put in
> a CPU that was at least 400 MHz.
>
> I know this is not specifically FreeBSD related but I have found that
> the people on the FreeBSD lists are the most knowledgeable. All responses
> are greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Glenn Johnson
>
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