From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 18:23:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 18:23:24 -0400 Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.123]:29367 "EHLO swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 18:23:17 -0400 Message-ID: <063301c1397e$0efa6d00$1125a8c0@wednesday> From: "J. Dow" To: , "Carsten Leonhardt" , In-Reply-To: <87g09w70o4.fsf@cymoril.oche.de> <01090915115400.00173@c779218-a> Subject: Re: Athlon/K7-Opimisation problems Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 15:23:27 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Nicholas Knight" > > The only difference I can make out between the working and the > > non-working CPU is the internal clockspeed of the CPU and the > > stepping (old: 2, new: 4). > > Heat anyone? stepping 4 hasn't seemed to be the problem, at least not > directly > What's the tempature difference between your 1Ghz and 1.4Ghz? both CPU > and system? What kind of cooling do you have? What about the power supply. If it is at all marginal the power consumption boost going to 1.4G is likely a killer. {^_^} Joanne Dow, jdow@earthlink.net