From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 24 15:57:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA07202 for current-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 15:57:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA07195 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 15:57:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.ki.net (root@freebsd.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) with ESMTP id SAA06665; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:57:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by freebsd.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id SAA02025; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:57:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:57:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Michael Smith cc: current@FreeBSD.org, cat@ki.net, geoff@ki.net Subject: Re: MotherBoard Jumper Settings... In-Reply-To: <199604240618.PAA16813@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > Marc G. Fournier stands accused of saying: > > > > First off, my CPU is an Intel DX4-100 w Write/Thru. CMOS > > was set for Write/Back...have changed it to Write/Thru... > > Ouch. Make sure there were no jumpers relevant to that as well. > None that I've been able to find, seems to be purely a CMOS setting... > > Second of all, one of the jumper that was supposed to be > > set, wasn't...have set it... > > Also bad. > Yup :( > > Third, the Oscillator Frequency was set for 33Mhz instead > > of 25Mhz...have fixed it... > > Wrong. "DX4" is marketting crap. They're really DX3's, so 33 is correct. > Reverted back again... > > If so, and I haven't changed that one yet, my CMOS is set for 20ns... > > would that produce any of the bugs I've been reporting? > > No. If the BIOS supports 15ns cycle cache memory then you may be > able to improve your performance by frobbing that. > So I should pop this up to 15ns? > Convention in naming memory parts is to put the size in Kbits in the part > number; 61512 implies 512kbits or 64kx8 or 128kx4. (I would expect the > latter). The setting you have now implies 8 cache parts, not 4. > If there's a 256kB/128kbx4 setting, try that. > The highest I have is 128Kb x 8 x 4pcs, so will try that out... Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org