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Date:      Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:28:41 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Dmitrij Sivacenko <dima@Chg.RU>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with K6-2/500 CPU
Message-ID:  <20010310232841.H28312@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <11116211867.20010310232159@Chg.RU>; from dima@Chg.RU on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 11:21:59PM %2B0300
References:  <20010310184300.A83942@netserv1.chg.ru> <20010310171408.A16883@freebie.demon.nl> <11116211867.20010310232159@Chg.RU>

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On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 11:21:59PM +0300, Dmitrij Sivacenko wrote:

> 
> WB> Smells like dodgy hardware, especially memory. You are not
> WB> overclocking are you?
> 
> WB> There are no problems with K6-2 & FreeBSD, I ran it on a K6-2 @400 
> WB> very successfully (now have an Athlon box).
> 
> WB> Wilko
> 
> I think that the problem is that I inserted this K6-2/500 into my TXP4
> motherboard, and I have only 2.0 volts voltage on processor kernel instead of
> 2.2 required.  But the problem seems to be in hardware really...

OK, sounds reasonable. I ran my K6-2/400 in an old T2P4 with a small
hardware hack to get the right core voltage. Worked brilliantly.
Never tried a TXP4

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