Re: Athlon: Try this (was: Re: Athlon bug stomping #2)

VDA
2001-09-15T20:30:11Z

Hello Liakakis,
Saturday, September 15, 2001, 9:00:41 PM, you wrote:
LK> Hate to post a me-too, but my Asus A7V133 does have 55.7 set (reg 55 ==
LK> 0x89) and is running fine with 2.4.9-ac9 and K7 optimizations. BIOS
LK> revision is 1005A, memory is 3x256MB noname DIMMs.

Ok, but we don't see KT133A mobos with Athlon/Duron and 55.7=1
to fail always. It can start failing with faster CPU, different
memory or once in a blue moon - nobody knows.

It is better to turn that bit off for good,
unless VIA and BIOS writers will enlighten
us what is 55.7 (and 55.6-0 too).
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Best regards, VDA
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