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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!newspump.wustl.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Am I having Mother Board problems? (long) Date: 12 Nov 1995 19:33:09 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 22 Message-ID: <485i5l$r0m@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <480g74$s8o@central.ro.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <480g74$s8o@central.ro.com> mprevost@ro.com (Mike R. Prevost) writes: > >486dx4/100 (AMD I think) ISA/PCI I have an ASUS SP3G w/ AMD DX4/100, and I recently was experiencing very similar symptoms under FreeBSD 2.0.5 and NetBSD 1.1_ALPHA. I believe I have fixed the problem on my box, it was the CMOS "CPU to DRAM write buffer" option. After disabling it, my machine hasn't crashed, even though I've been torturing it with eatmem/bonnie/make. (load of 5.xx) My SP3G has the Intel Saturn II chipset. You might want to check for a similar option on your mainboard, it is worth a shot. I'm still not happy that my AMD was not truly a "drop in" replacement for an Intel, but I'm not 100% sure whether it is a CPU or mainboard problem. -Andrew -- ============================ Real 32bit multi-tasking UN*X System Andrew Gillham | TCP/IP,NFS,PPP,4.4BSD-lite,multi-user gillham@andrews.edu | i386,sparc,alpha,mac68k,amiga,others LAN/WAN/NW/UN*X specialist | ---> http://www.NetBSD.org <---