Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > >On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote: > >> "Kevin M. Bealer" wrote: > >> Following up on this: >> >> After: >> >> 1) installing set6x86 >> 2) Setting all BIOS settings to maximum delay timings (for RAM) >> 3) Setting the ISA bus frequency to 7.159 MHz (lowest setting) >> (only my CDROM, modem, and ethernet card are on the ISA anyway.) >> >> Everything seems to be stable. The serial ports don't work as >> far as I can tell, but the modem works fine, and the PS/2 mouse >> works fine. > >Just a suggestion, but if you bought a board it should be able to run at >'normal' clock rates and not require adjusting like that. IMHO you have >some kind of faulty hardware if this is required. You might have some >device/memory/whatever that doesn't like the 75MHz bus speed however... > >I had a board that would nuke Win95 in some strange cases, mostly due to >PCI bustmastering it seemed, turned out to be bad ram -- though the ram >didn't fail any of the tests the supplier put it through after I told him >about it. I'm sure if I put linux on it I would see symptoms like you do, >crashing during kernel compiles and such. > >Is this a 430TX based MB? > >Jason >
Nah, it's a Gigabyte GA-586S, based on the SiS5571 chipset, Award BIOS. 32 MB EDO, 512K cache plus whatever the internal cache on a 6x86L 200+ is. It is on the Cyrix "recommended" list as well, and has specific documentation for setting up with this CPU (Cyrix 200+ has a 75 MHz bus speed; if your MB runs it at 60 MHz bus, you effectively have a 200 * (60/75) = 160.) I guess it's going back... I don't know whether I want to get another clone on another kind of board, or go to intel and get a Pent 120 for the same price. [EMAIL PROTECTED]/GNU--1.3---Linux--2.0.30--- You have new mail in /dev/null -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
