One thing, all these are using FIC VA-503+ motherboards, with VIA
chipsets. I am really starting to wonder if Linux has a problem
with these chipsets at high speeds and AMD processors. I haven't
had any problem under Win95 (ack!) on the same machines. Also, I
have seen a bunch of similar postings like this....
Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> > > > Does the K6-2 400mhz have any known bugs in it of this nature? I'm running a
> > > > K6 166 now but I've ordered a new motherboard and I would like to check on
> > > > this.
> > >
> > > NO!
> > >
> > > Long ago, k6 shipped buggy cpu's, and they are now replacing
> > > them. This bug is _ONLY_ present on some of old k6-200, not on
> > > anything faster.
> >
> > I've got an AMD K6/3D 300MHz Stepping A processor that seems to periodically
> > Seg11. I'm currently running RedHat 5.2 and am wondering if this behavior will get
> > better/worse if I up it to 2.2.1. The thing seems to run fast (599 BOGOMips) but I
> > can't count on it with Linux. NT (of all things) didn't have this problem.
>
> Strange. But this is definitely not _that_ k6 bug. If you have this
> problem, you should investigate. (RAMs, fan?)
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