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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 17:04:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Howard Lew <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com>
To: John Milford <jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: AMD K6
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On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, John Milford wrote:

> 
> 	I ma currently test driving an AMD K6/200 in a
> FIC PA-2005 motherboard and I am getting a lot of crashes.
> (actually it looks like a reset, no cores, no console messages
> just a spontaneous reboot). I am wondering if anyone has seen
> the K6 do similar things.  The vendor says "The K6 does support
> UNIX", but I am inclined to believe that he doesn't have a clue.
> I am thinking I will return the K6 and get a Cyrix M2, any thoughts?
> 
> 
> 
> 		--John
> 

The K6 works fine with FreeBSD...  Check the jumper settings on the 
motherboard.  Make sure the VRM on the motherboard has adequate cooling.