Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:48:38 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" <MSILVER@scana.com>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Re[2]: AMD Duron Message-ID: <00bf01c08586$400bc940$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <DBB3921EFE2AD211A81500A0C9B5FE7607175ED4@msg04.scana.com>
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Quite apart from all the dual-booting WinWhatever issues, the (FreeBSD 3.2) news server episode here is a fair example of why I have no time for AMD ... everything but the CPU was replaced several times over (with various breeds of component readily available in OZ) without making the slightest difference .... it was only when the AMD was replaced by an Intel that the machine functioned for more than a day without crashing . Maybe its possible to eventually find a combination of bits that do work properly with AMD but I've got more than enough things to do than mess around with that nonsense. ----- Original Message ----- From: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" <MSILVER@scana.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 7:33 AM Subject: RE: Re[2]: AMD Duron > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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