Re: AMD K6-2/400 and FIC VA-503+BM with Linux 2.0.36
Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech-lists@twilight.ucw.cz)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 23:00:30 +0100
On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 02:27:52PM -0500, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:
> > Do we have any good sucess stories with <350 Mhz K6's and FIC
> > VA-503+ MB's? I can't say I've heard one yet with this combo and
> > Linux.
>
> It has been my unfortunate experience that those motherboards have very very
> shoddy quality control.. I've seen some with defective AGP ports, flakey memory
> problems and just overall unstability.
>
> I don't think I'd be blaming the CPU just yet.. do you have any other
> motherboards you could try with your current setup?
Yes, I've had one with bad L2 cache and another with bad IDE interface before
I managed to get one that is 100% okay. But since then, it works like a charm ...
Vojtech
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