Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4

Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-09-27T16:27:46Z

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 27 September 2004 11:52, Matt Heler wrote:
> >On Monday 27 September 2004 8:31 am, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> ones to be effected, so lets compare notes:
> >>
> >> AMD Athlon 2800xp, biostar N7-NCD-Pro motherboard with an nforce2
> >> chipset, and using the forcedeth driver for eth0. A gigabyte of
> >> DDR400 rated ram running in DDR333 dual channel mode, the 2800xp
> >> Athlon can't handle the DDR400 fsb correctly. No acpi is enabled,
> >> and apm only for shutdown control & rtc handling.
> >
> >Simular system here. Athlon 3000xp , with nforce2 chipset.
>
> Can your athlon 3000xp do the DDR400 setting for the fsb?

JFYI, my XP2800+ with VIA KT600 cannot handle 2 DDR400 DIMMs neither, so I run
them at 333. But according to memtest86, the speed difference is small (< 4%).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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