From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jan 23 13:35:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.scana.com (falcon.scana.com [161.156.101.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96D5837B69C for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:35:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by falcon.scana.com; id QAA18276; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:34:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from maildmis.scana.com(161.156.252.90) by falcon.scana.com via smap (V5.5) id xma018235; Tue, 23 Jan 01 16:34:13 -0500 Received: from msg21.scana.com [161.156.252.90] by MSG21.SCANA.COM [161.156.252.90] (CMSPraetor 4.1.3395) with ESMTP id 459C9C41F15111D4B0970002A507E1C8 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:33:41 -0500 Received: by maildmis.scana.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:33:41 -0500 Message-ID: From: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" To: "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: Re[2]: AMD Duron Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:33:36 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I think Doug just got a bad CPU for whatever reason or a bad > motherboard. I can't testify to which CPU is better, I have had good luck with both AMD and Intel on FreeBSD. I can, however, testify to the effects of a bad motherboard. I had a cheap PC Chips MB with an 'illegal' BIOS chip. I would get random reboots all the time. Sometimes after 3 minutes, sometimes after a week, sometimes under heavy load, sometimes when idle. There was no explaining it. Swapped out the MB and never had a problem since (same CPU and memory). I can see how it would be real easy to blame the CPU (not that anyone is :-) ). ...Michael... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message