i would check the mainboard,most K7 ones will not support P133 memory.
M.A.
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Walter Brisken wrote:
>
> Today I put together my new Athlon. It is a 650 MHz chip running on a K7M
> motherboard. The power supply is one recommended by AMD, and the RAM is
> PC133 which is certified by Accubyte to be good with Athlons.
>
> Booting Redhat 6.1 (or the new beta, 6.1.92) give very poor memory
> bandwidths:
>
> raid5: measuring checksumming speed
> raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
> pII_mmx : 78.105 MB/sec
> p5_mmx : 75.819 MB/sec
> 8regs : 92.202 MB/sec
> 32regs : 42.291 MB/sec
> using fastest function: 8regs (92.202 MB/sec)
>
> The other weird thing is a two-tone siren that the PC speaker puts out
> that I cannot turn off. I thought it was the "Chassis Intrusion" but I
> can't seem to turn it off, even with the bios option for it.
>
>
> We have another Athlon running in the lab here (500 MHz on an FIC SD11
> board) and it outperforms this new machine by a factor of about 5 on
> floating point tests and a factor of about 10 on memory transfer tests.
>
> I've tried the Red Hat 2.2.12 and 2.2.15pre kernels with the same
> disappointment. I think there might be a new BIOS out there, but can't
> find it. It is supposed to allow super-bypass, but that can't account for
> the slowness. I have even tried the memory from the 500 MHz machine. I
> can't think of any other things to do. I have experienced no stability
> trouble at all.
>
> Is this a kernel issue? Any ideas would be appreciated. Please cc your
> responce to my email address.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Walter
>
>
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