Re: Corruption bug in CPU, kernel or tar
Jon Niehof (jnieho38@calvin.edu)
Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:34:51 -0400 (EDT)
> I have noticed that the motherboard voltage supplied to
> AMD K6 cpu by FIC motherboards is sometimes too low. Try
> upping the voltage a notch or two and see if that fixes
> it. It did for us on several K6 systems which were
> experiencing random corruption / sig11.
There is an acknowledged issue with the PS on the FIC
boards. It's especially noticeable with 2MB of cache and a
fast K6-3, since that sucks quite a bit of power. Tom's
Hardware has a little bit of info under one of his most
recent video card reviews, for those who are interested.
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