Messages in this thread |  | | From | Nicholas Knight <> | Subject | Re: Athlon/K7-Opimisation problems | Date | Sun, 9 Sep 2001 15:11:54 -0700 |
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On Sunday 09 September 2001 10:07 am, Carsten Leonhardt wrote: > Hi, > > here's my data regarding the K7 optimisation problem. > > Until last week I had a 1GHz Athlon with 133MHz FSB. I then bought a > 1.4GHz Athlon, again 133MHz FSB. > > I never had any problems with the 1GHz processor, but as soon as I > stuck the 1.4GHz processor in, the kernel oopsed itself to > oblivion. (That was with kernel 2.4.5-ac5, approximately)
This is common enough it's becoming absurd.
> > I also noticed that the computer booted ok with the Debian > bootfloppies, which use a kernel compiled for i386. So after several > kernel compile/boot cycles, I found out that I had to disable K7 > optimisation to make the system boot again. > > The mainboard is a Tyan Trinity KT-A (S2390B) with a VIA KT133A > chipset. > > After reading here that it may be the PSU, I upgraded my 300W PSU to a > 431W Enermax, which made no difference. > > The only difference I can make out between the working and the > non-working CPU is the internal clockspeed of the CPU and the > stepping (old: 2, new: 4).
Heat anyone? stepping 4 hasn't seemed to be the problem, at least not directly What's the tempature difference between your 1Ghz and 1.4Ghz? both CPU and system? What kind of cooling do you have? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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