Messages in this thread | | | From | "Anthony Barbachan" <> | Subject | Re: AMD K6-2/400 and FIC VA-503+BM with Linux 2.0.36 | Date | Tue, 23 Feb 1999 01:44:01 -0500 |
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>I am having similar problems with some K6-2/350 and VA-503+ MB's >design. Exact same symtoms, and if I move to the next lower >speed, it works fine. Replaced processors, same problem. So it is >either a widespread problem with the K6's quality control, or the >VA-503+'s. Most people blame the memory, but I've tried enough >different pieces of memory to know better, by this time. >
I'd say its more likely to be the motherboards, I've had all kinds of weird happenings with FIC VA-503+ motherboard. Its to bad they seam to be the best ones out there, AT-wise at least. I've solved most screwiness by doing BIOS updates. The best that I can tell is that eariler BIOS's were very buggy. There is one annoyance about the lastest BIOS though; before it my Adaptec 1542CF worked very happily on IRQ 9, after updating to the latest BIOS version the Adaptec started killing both Win98 and Linux with GPF's, timeouts, etc. This problem was resolved by reconfiguring the 1542CF to IRQ 10. I suspect FIC knew about this new bug as IRQ 9 was moved to the last position in the PCI allocation order in the same BIOS version that exibits the IRQ 9 bug. However, once these semi-rare problems with the VA-503+ motherboards have been resolved they have proven excellent performers with both Cyrix and AMD chips (mostly MII-PR300's and K6-2 300-350's here).
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