Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:16:37 -0600 (EST) From: joe <joe@lab.cba.ualr.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>, sporkl@ix.netcom.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware woes - AMD K6/2-300 (?) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9901202110260.789-100000@lab.cba> In-Reply-To: <19990121120545.Q15785@freebie.lemis.com>
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There is a Signal 11 FAQ at: http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ It's not specific to FreeBSD but it may give some insight. -joe On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 20 January 1999 at 16:18:54 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > > > In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901201539570.306-100000@PigStuy.nws.net>, you wrote: > > > >> I have used 2.2.8 on an AMD k6/2-300 system. > >> Signal 11 is segmentation fault, so it would appear that this would be a > >> memory problem. Is your motherboard's memory configuration compatible with > >> the memory you are using? > > > > Yes. I have just learned however that there was a known problem with the > > earlier (pre-C) steppings of the AMD-K6/2 which causes them to be unreliable > > when used with more than 32MB of memory. This has now been confirmed for > > me by AMD. > > If you're referring to the stuff you told me about in private mail, > no, this referred *only* to the K6/1. I've been running a later > K6/1-233 for over a year now. I had problems with it at the > beginning, but they disappeared completely when I installed a bigger > fan. You'll note that just about all the replies agree that there are > no problems with AMD. > > > My system has 64MB in it. > > > > The processor that _I_ bought (as part of a complete system) apparently is > > of the `A' stepping vintage - it has the bug. > > I'm pretty sure that this is not the case. > > > Of course, the dealer I bought it from claims that hs has no AMD K6/2-300s > > which are any later than stepping `A' and that his distributor also has none > > of any later stepping... Translation? I got screwed. > > Are there any B steppings yet? > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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