[ale] k7s5a mb drama continues

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Tue Oct 29 12:36:24 EST 2002


The new RedHat 8 detects an athalon processor and loads some boot time
params that solve some known issues with athalons. I don't recall the
details as I don't use AMD cpus, but some google digging should be
useful.

On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 10:58, Geoffrey wrote:
> John Wells wrote:
> >>50C doesn't seem to be that high to me either.
> > 
> > 
> > Geoffrey, remember that the temps your board reports are relative to the
> > thermistor type and location.  50c on your board could be actually 80c on
> > the die surface.
> 
> Understood, it's just hard for me to believe that there is a 40C (70F) 
> degree temperature difference between the die and the sensor that sits 
> right under it.  The sensor is in fact sitting in a broiler oven, with 
> the die as the heating unit.
> 
> > 
> > Ecs probably knows best.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> > I still say get rid of that board ;-P.
> 
> Well, the jury's still out.  I can hardly fault the board if the stock 
> mdk kernel was causing the problems.  After all, that kernel is designed 
> for a 586 processor.  Red Hat may have worked better as it's a lower 
> common denominator (i386).
> 
> Unfortunate that is though, since it'd be difficult to ask the average 
> user to install mdk on an Athlon and then build a new kernel.
> 
> Anyone else running a stock mdk kernel on an Athlon (xp preferably). 
> I'd be curious to see if others DON'T have this problem.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
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> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
> 
> 
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