Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 17 Sep 2001 02:58:26 +0200 | From | Petr Vandrovec <> | Subject | Re: Athlon: Try this (was: Re: Athlon bug stomping #2) |
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On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 01:52:36PM -0300, Roberto Jung Drebes wrote: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > One way to test this hypthesis maybe to run dmidecode on the machines and > > see if they report KT133 or KT133A. Its also possible some BIOS code does > > blindly program bit 7 even tho its reserved and should have been kept > > unchanged. > > I'm not sure if this is the output you are talking about (I see no KT133 > strings on it) but here it goes (this motherboard uses KT133A and > exhibits the bug): > > Handle 0x0001 > DMI type 1, 25 bytes. > System Information Block > Vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc. > Product: VT8363 > Version: > Serial Number:
VT8363 is basic KT133. KT133A == VT8363A, at least according to VT8363A datasheet...
> Handle 0x0002 > DMI type 2, 8 bytes. > Board Information Block > Vendor: <http://www.abit.com.tw> > Product: 8363-686A(KT7,KT7A,KT7A-RAID,KT7E) > Version: > Serial Number:
... but there are listed both KT133 and KT133A based motherboards, so maybe it is intentional? Best regards, Petr Vandrovec vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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