From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 1 19:37:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 120F137B580 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 19:37:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: (from ler@localhost) by lerami.lerctr.org (8.10.1/8.10.1/20000616) id e622bY510740; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 21:37:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Larry Rosenman Message-Id: <200007020237.e622bY510740@lerami.lerctr.org> Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 In-Reply-To: <20000702120324.S18213@wantadilla.lemis.com> "from Greg Lehey at Jul 2, 2000 12:03:24 pm" To: Greg Lehey Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 21:37:33 -0500 (CDT) Cc: Larry Rosenman , Greg Work , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL79 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Let's put it this way, I've posted a NUMBER of items to the -stable list over the last 2-4 weeks as I've fought this one. I can't get a CPU/BIOS/MB with a K6-2/550 on it to SUCCESSFULLY/RELIABLY make world. I'm tired of fighting it. The *SAME MEMORY STICK* runs just fine on this Shuttle AV61 motherboard with Intel P-III 600E CPU. I can't get a more accurate description from the techs. if you want to trouble shoot it, be my guest, but I can't give any more time to it. I've played with ALL the BIOS settings on both a HOT-591/P and a HOT-597 Shuttle board with the K6-2/550, and also TONS of Kernel settings, nothing gets a successful repeatable MAKE WORLD. Therefore I went, reluctantly, and at a $200 cost, back to Intel. I resent your comment that it's memory or processor (read the threads I've posted recently). Larry Rosenman > On Saturday, 1 July 2000 at 21:21:56 -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: > > (mutilated description of hardware-related problems with AMD K6-2 deleted) > > hmm.... > > I can't (the AMD K6-2 is back at the computer store), as > > I said, that computer now has an Intel P-III 600E in it :-). > > > > The tech's at IMS did say that AMD did admit to "some problem" with > > the K6-2's, so I'm not sure that an earlier FreeBSD will help... > > There have been "some problems" with all processors. Without any > more accurate description, this statement doesn't help. > > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 (voice) Internet: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message