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

Vojtech Pavlik
2001-09-16T17:01:19Z

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:47:55PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > One way to test this hypthesis maybe to run dmidecode on the machines and
> > > see if they report KT133 or KT133A. Its also possible some BIOS code does
> > > blindly program bit 7 even tho its reserved and should have been kept
> > > unchanged.
> >
> > I think it's possible to decide whether a chipset is KT133 or KT133A
> > based on the hostbridge revision. Mine is KT133 and is rev 03.
>
> That tells you the chipset of the bridge. dmidecode dumps bios strings which
> may tell you the chipset the bios was actually for..

Ahh, yes.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs