Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:43:44 -0700 | From | Tim Moore <> |
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"Bobby D. Bryant" wrote: > > Tim Moore wrote: > > > > It seems to work somewhat better for some if you set your BIOS to the > > > conservative settings, but that didn't help me. I have an Epox 8KTA3+ (Via > > > KT133A) w/ a 1.4GHz Athlon and 512MB memory. If you can't get it to work that > > > way, just stick with the K6 setting. The point is, your hardware is likely fine > > > (fine being relative, I suppose) > > > If there are other tricks, I'm all ears. > > > > The i686 setting works perfectly. > > For some people. I have an 8KTA3+ that will boot as an i686, but starts oopsing its > shorts off after it has been up a while. > > I posted some of the oopsen a few months ago, and to my feeble mind they all looked > memory related. (Several were "bug in slab.c" kind of thing, IIRC.
I hadn't heard a case of 686 not working given the compatability between Athlon/PIII. To be clear, CONFIG_M686=y has worked perfectly with 850MHz Athlon + VT82C686.
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