Re: bizarre problems with Athlon system after upgrdaing motherboard

2000-09-11 Thread Alan Cox
> > When we upgraded the motherboard, we got consistant GPFs right after > > the line: > > Enabling extended fast FPU save > > It sounds like Redhat patched the kernel to support the Pentium III XMM > extensions and the kernel is misdetecting the Athlon as a PIII. The Athlon claims to su

Re: bizarre problems with Athlon system after upgrdaing motherboard

2000-09-11 Thread Brian Gerst
Marty Leisner wrote: > When we upgraded the motherboard, we got consistant GPFs right after > the line: > Enabling extended fast FPU save It sounds like Redhat patched the kernel to support the Pentium III XMM extensions and the kernel is misdetecting the Athlon as a PIII. --

bizarre problems with Athlon system after upgrdaing motherboard

2000-09-11 Thread Marty Leisner
At work, we're using a AMD Athlon system for evaluation. Our last motherboard didn't work with 512Mbyte simms, so we got a new motherboard (an Asus flavor -- the old motherboard only saw 256 Mbyte). I had Redhat 6.2 installed (2.2.14). It worked fine. When we upgraded the motherboard, we got