Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 May 2001 03:43:57 -0300 | From | John R Lenton <> | Subject | Re: REVISED: Experimentation with Athlon and fast_page_copy |
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On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:10:06AM +0600, Bobby D. Bryant wrote: > They do boot PIII kernels reliably for all those variants, though they still > suffer occasional oopses, hangs, or crashes (as discussed in other threads).
and as happens with my SMP pIII VIA-based boxed (and I've finally fixed the memory, so I no longer get the oopses, just solid hardware hangs).
> However (and here's the part I haven't mentioned before), yesterday I switched > one of them to a new mb with a non-VIA chipset (Asus A7A266), and it booted the > first Athlon kernel I tried (2.4.4). No other changes to .config, same > processor as before, same memory, same disks, same video, same case, same power > cord, you name it.
damn. I guess the saving of 200$ on the MSI has probably been 300$ down the drain :(
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