Re: Athlon doesn't like Athlon optimisation?

Bobby D. Bryant
2001-08-31T19:20:19Z

Tim Moore wrote:

> > It seems to work somewhat better for some if you set your BIOS to the
> > conservative settings, but that didn't help me. I have an Epox 8KTA3+ (Via
> > KT133A) w/ a 1.4GHz Athlon and 512MB memory. If you can't get it to work that
> > way, just stick with the K6 setting. The point is, your hardware is likely fine
> > (fine being relative, I suppose)
> > If there are other tricks, I'm all ears.
>
> The i686 setting works perfectly.

For some people. I have an 8KTA3+ that will boot as an i686, but starts oopsing its
shorts off after it has been up a while.

I posted some of the oopsen a few months ago, and to my feeble mind they all looked
memory related. (Several were "bug in slab.c" kind of thing, IIRC.)

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas