Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:45:30 -0600 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> To: "Michael Bretterklieber" <mbretter@inode.at> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Athlon Thunderbird 700 w. Asus K7M Motherboard vs. FreeBSD 4.2 Message-ID: <009e01c07cb7$132d9e30$3028680a@tgt.com> References: <3A5F1F43.EE70CB3C@inode.at> <20010112161044.A97484@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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I wasn't aware that they made any Slot A Thuderbird processors. I believe a Thunderbird will only run with the KT133 chipset (or better) or the AMD-760 chipset and not the AMD-750/751 chipset. Are you sure that CPU is what you think it is? Tom Veldhouse veldy@veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Malone" <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: "Michael Bretterklieber" <mbretter@inode.at> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.org> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 10:10 AM Subject: Re: Athlon Thunderbird 700 w. Asus K7M Motherboard vs. FreeBSD 4.2 > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:14:11PM +0100, Michael Bretterklieber wrote: > > > I have problems with my Athlon Thunderbird 700 on an Asus K7M > > Motherboard > > (Bios 1009) and FreeBSD 4.2. > > The system is very very slow, like on an old 386. I have this problems > > since I updatet from an Athlon 500 to this Athlon Thunderbird 700. I > > have on the same Harddisk Win98 and Win2K and they work without > > problems, fast and stable. > > This situation is disastrous for me, because I had to work under > > FreeBSD, so I hope, that somebody can help. > > I wonder if it could be a problem with the BIOS not setting up the > MTRR registers correctly. I have seen problems (on SMP machines) > where the BIOS was not setting up the MTRR registers on some of > the CPUs weren't caching any of memory. FreeBSD has a work around > for this in the SMP case, but maybe not in the single processor > case. > > I'd try looking for a BIOS upgrade, as it may be a problem with > the old BIOS not initialising the new processor. > > David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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