From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 13:11:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 13:11:38 -0400 Received: from femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.254.60.19]:7141 "EHLO femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 13:11:36 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Nicholas Knight Reply-To: tegeran@home.com To: "Simen Thoresen" , "alan" Subject: Re: Status of the VIA KT133a and 2.4.x debacle? Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 10:11:14 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200109011619480531.23AA844A@scispor.dolphinics.no> In-Reply-To: <200109011619480531.23AA844A@scispor.dolphinics.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01090110111400.00171@c779218-a> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 01 September 2001 07:19 am, Simen Thoresen wrote: > Alan, list, et all, > > I've picked up a KT133a board (EpoX 8KTA/3) and a 1.2GHz Thunderbird > processor (133MHz FSB), and have seen the same problems that have been > reported previously with the KT133a. Random oops'es, both fatal and non > fatal, when running the system on a 2.4 kernel with CONFIG_MK7. > > The bord seems rock solid with 2.2.x kernels, and also with 2.4.x > kernels with CONFIG_M686 set for basic i686 + MMX. I've also run the > board with a 100MHz FSB, but that has not improved anything. Also > turning off /some/ optimizations in bios have not helped. Just out of curiosity, can you drop that to 100Mhz FSB and a multiplier of 8? I don't know about the manual clocking support on EpoX boards, but if you can, it might be good to give it a shot. Most likely it has nothing to do with clock speed whatsoever, but I'm really beginning to wonder. I don't think I've seen a single reported case under 900-1000Mhz, and thunderbirds were made below 900Mhz. (reason I chose 800MHz is my non-tbird Athlon is 800 and is rock solid)