From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 12 8:20: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (216-118-21-146.pdq.net [216.118.21.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B1137B6A0 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:19:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EBA0A177EF1; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:19:44 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0FC31D2F12; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:19:44 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:19:44 -0600 (CST) From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: David Malone Cc: Michael Bretterklieber , Subject: Re: Athlon Thunderbird 700 w. Asus K7M Motherboard vs. FreeBSD 4.2 In-Reply-To: <20010112161044.A97484@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had this same motherboard with a 600Mhz. Although I haven't had any other cpu's in it, it didn't seem to run slow for me with the 600 I had in it in either windows98 or FreeBSD. I had the same bios version too. On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, David Malone wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:14:11PM +0100, Michael Bretterklieber wrote: > > > I have problems with my Athlon Thunderbird 700 on an Asus K7M > > Motherboard > > (Bios 1009) and FreeBSD 4.2. > > The system is very very slow, like on an old 386. I have this problems > > since I updatet from an Athlon 500 to this Athlon Thunderbird 700. I > > have on the same Harddisk Win98 and Win2K and they work without > > problems, fast and stable. > > This situation is disastrous for me, because I had to work under > > FreeBSD, so I hope, that somebody can help. > > I wonder if it could be a problem with the BIOS not setting up the > MTRR registers correctly. I have seen problems (on SMP machines) > where the BIOS was not setting up the MTRR registers on some of > the CPUs weren't caching any of memory. FreeBSD has a work around > for this in the SMP case, but maybe not in the single processor > case. > > I'd try looking for a BIOS upgrade, as it may be a problem with > the old BIOS not initialising the new processor. > > David. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message