From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 17:55:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 17:55:39 -0400 Received: from amsfep15-int.chello.nl ([213.46.243.27]:31843 "EHLO amsfep15-int.chello.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 17:55:18 -0400 Message-ID: <3B97EFE0.30703@chello.nl> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 23:51:28 +0200 From: Gerbrand van der Zouw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tegeran@home.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: K7/Athlon optimizations again. (The sacrifices worked??) (VIA KT133A chipset) In-Reply-To: <01090613553103.00465@c779218-a> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nicholas Knight wrote: > I'd be curious if it's an issue with only one brand or release of BIOS > then. Hi, I am one of the person reporting success with some BIOS version over another. I have been experimenting some more and found the following: Sytem: Board: MSI K7T Turbo (MS-6330) CPU: Athlon 1.2 GHz Video: NVidia GF2 Kernel: 2.4.6ac5 with the patch Kurt Garloff posted here some while ago (can't find the right reference) Ranking from very unstable to stable: Very unstable: 2.4.6 plain, Award V2.7 Bios (i.e. without the Southbridge bug solved the official VIA way) Unstable: 2.4.6ac5 with or without Kurt's patch, Award V2.7 Bios Stable (up to now): 2.4.6ac5 with Kurt's patch and Award V2.8 Bios. The key factor seemed to be the BIOS. The MSI website says that the following things changed between release 2.7 and 2.8: - Fix STR Fail on MS-6330Lite. - Fix 3Dmark 2001 sometimes halt - Fix K7T Turbo Limited cannot adjust vcore Only the second fix seems applicable to my mobo, but the description does not give a clue. I hope that someone can distill something useful out of this. I am of course willing to try some other combination of parameters if this would help finding the source of the problem. Cheers, Gerbrand van der Zouw