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From: Lars Jonas Olsson <jonas@mcs.net>
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Subject: DX4-100 and sig-11's
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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 10:44:09 -0600 (CST)
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 I'm testing an older 486DX4-100 computer with FreeBSD. I've run85
cycles of memtest-86 on it with no problem, but FreeBSD dies when
starting up (after npx probe).
 The system has a PVI-486SP3 motherboard, Award BIOS, 3 PCI slots, SiS
85C496 and 85X497 chipset and Intel DX4 A80486DX4100 SK051. The CPU
has a "TOUCH H9512" (CPU made before Dec. 1995) sticker on it.  Any
ideas? The BIOS will let me choose write-thru or write-back for the
caches but no disable. I've tried both options.

Jonas