Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Danny ter Haar) | Subject | Re: AMD K5 with Linux | Date | 21 Jul 1996 08:09:06 +0200 |
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Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk> wrote: >On 18 Jul 1996, I wrote: >> >> Several weird errors occured after about 15 minutes of operation: > >Hmm, 10-15 mins .... has it got fan, is it getting too hot ? (wind >blowing the wrong way ;)
That is working OK. STill was able to touch the heatsink without blisters. From the specs the AMD produces less heat than a Intel Pentium.
>Hmm, could be the copro is sensitive to the heat. Does hlt effect the >copro, or just the cpu, ie the cpu is keeping cool enough because it's >lightly loaded, and being hlt'ed (a low power consumption mode), but the >copro is running just as hot as ever. Well it's just an idea .... > Well I replaced the ISA videalcard (realtek) with a PCI-S3 and had none of the described problems again. everything works, X-windows etc. Still the same ISA networkcard (full-length WD8013) but for some reason the ISA videocard was messing up things...
It wasn't software after all...
Danny
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