Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 1 May 2001 16:02:16 -0400 (EDT) | From | Mark Hahn <> | Subject | Re: DISCOVERED! Cause of Athlon/VIA KX133 Instability |
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> And that's exactly what I did :)... I found that ONLY the combination > of USE_3DNOW and forcing the athlon mmx stuff in (by doing #if 1 in > results in this wackiness. I should alos repeat that I *DO* see that
I doubt that USE_3DNOW is causing the problem, but rather when you USE_3DNOW, the kernel streams through your northbridge at roughly twice the bandwidth. if your dram settings are flakey, this could eaily trigger a problem.
this has nothing to do with the very specific disk corruption being discussed (which has to do with the ide controller, according to the most recent rumors.).
> The other thing i was gunna try is to dump my chipset registers using > WPCREDIT and WPCRSET and compare them with other people on this list
why resort to silly windows tools, when lspci under Linux does it for you?
regards, mark hahn.
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