From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 10 14:26:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6D1737B719 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 14:26:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14brox-000OAC-00; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 22:26:43 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f2AMSfj28511; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:28:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:28:41 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Dmitrij Sivacenko Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with K6-2/500 CPU Message-ID: <20010310232841.H28312@freebie.demon.nl> References: <20010310184300.A83942@netserv1.chg.ru> <20010310171408.A16883@freebie.demon.nl> <11116211867.20010310232159@Chg.RU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <11116211867.20010310232159@Chg.RU>; from dima@Chg.RU on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 11:21:59PM +0300 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 11:21:59PM +0300, Dmitrij Sivacenko wrote: > > WB> Smells like dodgy hardware, especially memory. You are not > WB> overclocking are you? > > WB> There are no problems with K6-2 & FreeBSD, I ran it on a K6-2 @400 > WB> very successfully (now have an Athlon box). > > WB> Wilko > > I think that the problem is that I inserted this K6-2/500 into my TXP4 > motherboard, and I have only 2.0 volts voltage on processor kernel instead of > 2.2 required. But the problem seems to be in hardware really... OK, sounds reasonable. I ran my K6-2/400 in an old T2P4 with a small hardware hack to get the right core voltage. Worked brilliantly. Never tried a TXP4 -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message