From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 30 15:41:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA14489 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 15:41:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail (root@wormhole.map.com [204.71.19.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA14483 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 15:41:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: From: "Roland Jay Roberts" To: "FreeBSD Questions" , "Mark Mathis" Date: Tue, 30 Jul 96 16:19:15 -0400 Reply-To: "Roland Jay Roberts" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Roland Roberts's Registered PMMail 1.51 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: installation of 2.1.5 problems Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 23 Jul 1996 10:36:50 -0400 (EDT), Mark Mathis wrote: >for one problem, when external cache was inabled the system would crash >in anything from 5 minutes to an hour. When external cache was disabled >the machine was rock solid and would run until we brought it down manually. >this is normaly due to bad memory, motherboard, etc.. I called my vendor > INTEL 100 MHZ CPU > INTEL i430FX PCIset chipset dated 94 The problem? The Intel Triton I (i430FX) Chipset. Someone else here will have to tell you the exact BIOS setting needed to get the L2 cache working, since the BIOS on my machine (with the Triton Chipset) doesn't have that particular setting. I've been running with the L2 cache off, both under FreeBSD and OS/2. // Roland Jay Roberts - Team OS/2 - | I've RTFMed. It says: // Internet: jay@map.com | "Refer to your system administrator" // FidoNet: Roland Roberts @ 1:321/305.5 | But... I *am* the system administrator :-]