Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:33:36 -0500 From: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" <MSILVER@scana.com> To: "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Re[2]: AMD Duron Message-ID: <DBB3921EFE2AD211A81500A0C9B5FE7607175ED4@msg04.scana.com>
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> 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
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