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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:33:36 -0500
From:      "SILVER, MICHAEL A" <MSILVER@scana.com>
To:        "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Re[2]: AMD Duron
Message-ID:  <DBB3921EFE2AD211A81500A0C9B5FE7607175ED4@msg04.scana.com>

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> 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...



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