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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: 512K L2 cache problems
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On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Tim Tsai wrote:

>   Is anybody running an Asus motherboard (specifically one with 430HX
> chipset) with 512K of L2 cache?  I recently ordered 6 of these
> motherboards with 256K built-in and an additional 256K on a module and
> every one will crash FreeBSD 2.1.6 with the 256K module attached.  It
> doesn't seem to have that problem with Windows 95 but I took the module
> out anyway, just to be safe.  The following scenarios will crash it
> everytime:
> 
>   512K Cache, MB set to use 512K Cache, BIOS Cache enabled
>   512K Cache, MB set to use 256K Cache, BIOS Cache enabled

How does it crash?

It's possible Asus got a batch of bad modules.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major