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Date:      Sat, 1 Jul 2000 21:37:33 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, Greg Work <Greg@fatcanary.com.au>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AMD K6-2 / 550
Message-ID:  <200007020237.e622bY510740@lerami.lerctr.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000702120324.S18213@wantadilla.lemis.com> "from Greg Lehey at Jul 2, 2000 12:03:24 pm"

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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
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