It seems Glenn Johnson wrote: > I have had this exact problem. I have an Epox 8KTA board with a > 1GHz Athlon (Thunderbird) with 256MB of PC-133 memory. I would > consistently get random errors, usually during a compilation, using > the default BIOS settings. After fiddling with some of the BIOS > options, such as enabling PCI burst, the system runs pretty stable. > However, occasionally I will get that freeze that you refer to during a > buildworld. As far as I can tell though if I set the memory clock to > 100MHz the problem goes away completely, or at least I have not observed > it happen yet.
I have a 8kta3+ here that has problems with some of the PC133 512Mb modules I got cheaply earlier this year, the problem was solved when I swithed of "page mode" in the BIOS, it then runs 100% stable even overclocked at 145Mhz and CAS2 which the modules shouldn't even support. > It is really hard for me to say if this is FreeBSD specific because I do > not tend to stress the system much when I have Linux running. My wife > has an identical system running Windows 98SE and she has no problems > but I know that I have installed software from Epox that specifically > addresses some issues with the VIA chipset so that may be why. >From what I can tell the newest Epox BIOS for the 8kta3 does *not* install the 686b fix when it doesn't detect a SBLive! sound card, nice but not good enough :/ -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
