From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 12 8:45:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from veldy.net (w028.z064001117.msp-mn.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.117.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24E7E37B69C for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:45:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from HP2500B (veldy.net [64.1.117.28]) by veldy.net (Postfix) with SMTP id C48278C5A; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:44:55 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <009e01c07cb7$132d9e30$3028680a@tgt.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "Michael Bretterklieber" Cc: References: <3A5F1F43.EE70CB3C@inode.at> <20010112161044.A97484@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Subject: Re: Athlon Thunderbird 700 w. Asus K7M Motherboard vs. FreeBSD 4.2 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:45:30 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wasn't aware that they made any Slot A Thuderbird processors. I believe a Thunderbird will only run with the KT133 chipset (or better) or the AMD-760 chipset and not the AMD-750/751 chipset. Are you sure that CPU is what you think it is? Tom Veldhouse veldy@veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Malone" To: "Michael Bretterklieber" Cc: Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 10:10 AM Subject: Re: Athlon Thunderbird 700 w. Asus K7M Motherboard vs. FreeBSD 4.2 > 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