Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Corruption bug in CPU, kernel or tar | From | Mark Gray <> | Date | 14 Jul 1999 09:38:20 -0400 |
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Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> writes:
> > On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Andre M. Hedrick wrote: > > I do not think is is `tar' but the CPU-chipset combo plus egcs compiled > > for Intel and not for AMD. I have not had time to reproduce the test, > > but the FIC 503+ MVP3, BIOS 115JE35s with AMD K6-2/450 3D-Now on a stock > > Slackware 3.5 install would eat/barf/grow the root partition. > > Now that very same board revision (same shipping lot) with an Intel 233 > > MMX work correctly. One should note that egcs+MVP3+K6-2/450 barfed and > > puked "gcc error 11" 54 times in trying to compile a 2.2.X kernel. > > HOWEVER, drop in the old Intel jobber and flawless compiles. > > I have noticed that the motherboard voltage supplied to AMD K6 cpu by FIC > motherboards is sometimes too low. Try upping the voltage a notch or > two and see if that fixes it. It did for us on several K6 systems which > were experiencing random corruption / sig11. > > -Dan
Also, the AMD K6-2/450 draws a lot more current then the board makers anticipated (Soyo recently just upped their power supply from 10amp to 14amp on the 5EMA+ Vers 1.0 in order to get it in spec (just repeating rumors)).
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