Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 05 May 2001 00:10:06 +0600 | From | "Bobby D. Bryant" <> | Subject | Re: REVISED: Experimentation with Athlon and fast_page_copy |
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Aaron Tiensivu wrote:
> > What still stands out is that exactly _zero_ people have reported the same > > problem with non VIA chipset Athlons. > > This might be grasping at straws [...] This could be (total conjecture)
> related somehow to the corruption bugs they are admitting to in
> the 686B although they are blaming the SB Live now.
Just another data point (the news is in the final paragraph):
I recently built two near-twin systems using Athlon 1.2's and VIA chipsets (EPoX 8KTA3), and have *never* been able to get either to boot an Athlon-optimized kernel, having tried 2.4.0, 2.4.2, 2.4.4, and about 5 different -ac* variants of 2.4.3.
They do boot PIII kernels reliably for all those variants, though they still suffer occasional oopses, hangs, or crashes (as discussed in other threads).
However (and here's the part I haven't mentioned before), yesterday I switched one of them to a new mb with a non-VIA chipset (Asus A7A266), and it booted the first Athlon kernel I tried (2.4.4). No other changes to .config, same processor as before, same memory, same disks, same video, same case, same power cord, you name it.
Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas
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