Re: VIA Southbridge bug (Was: Crash on boot (2.4.5))

Pavel Machek
2001-07-08T17:33:33Z

Hi!

> > Great, glad to here it. Who (if anyone) is still attempting to unravel
> > the puzzle of the Via southbridge bug? You, Andy, should try and get in
> > touch with them and help debug this thing, if you're up to it.
>
> The IWILL problem seems unrelated. Its the board that more than others people
> report fails totally when streaming memory copies using movntq instructions.
>
> The Athlon optimised kernel places pretty much the absolute maximum load
> possible on the memory bus. Several people have reported that machines that
> are otherwise stable on the bios fast options require the proper conservative
> settings to be stable with the Athlon optimisations

Do we need patch to memtest to use 3dnow?
Pavel
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