Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 4 Nov 1996 09:13:28 -0800 (PST) | From | "B. James Phillippe" <> | Subject | Re: Triton II + 6x86 hangs |
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On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Harald Koenig wrote:
> > > I recently "upgraded" to a generic Triton II motherboard with a Cyrix > > > 6x86 processor. At random times my system now hangs completely - it > > > > > > Does anyone know what could be causing these hangs? > > > > I think it's a problem with the Cyrix chip. I had a similar problem with > > a similar setup. The thing would just stop. I got both the motherboard > > and the chip at the same time from the same vendor at a "Computer Show". > > I brought __BOTH__ back and the vendor swaped the CPU. End of problem. > > according to an articel in a german computer journal (c't 11/96 p.268) > Cyrix 6x86 up to version 2.6 have a bug in cache management which > can cause system crashes in every OS (even Win*). > > this bug should be fixed in chip version 2.7 (but don't ask me how to > find out the version of your chip; don't know).
Isn't this the stepping field in /proc/cpuinfo? e.g.,
processor : 0 cpu : 586 model : 6x86 2x Core/Bus Clock vendor_id : CyrixInstead stepping : 1 rev 7 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid : yes wp : yes flags : fpu bogomips : 119.60
-bp -- # B. James Phillippe # System Administrator [terran.org] # <bryan.phillippe@terran.org> ~ http://w3.terran.org/~bryan
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