Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 27 May 1997 02:59:41 +0200 | From | Felix von Leitner <> | Subject | AMD K6 works at 90 MHz but fails at 166 MHz? |
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Hi recently bought an AMD K6 to speed up my compile cycles. My old motherboard, an ASUS TP4XE didn't handle 166 MHz, the screen stayed black, no sync signal, no beep, nothing. But with 90 MHz, it worked, was quite a bit faster, yet I bought a 166 MHz processor so I want to run it at 166 MHz. So I tried to use it with a Soyo motherboard a friend lended me. Linux hangs reproducibly during the SCSI scan. Yet Windoze boots fine and stays up for hours.
How can this be? I mean, the K6 seems to be compatible, otherwise Windoze couldn't run. I tried 2.0.30 and 2.1.40 kernels with different SCSI drivers (for my NCR 810).
I tried another motherboard, too, an I-Will board with on-board Adaptec. While this board survives the SCSI scan, it hangs when I try to log in.
I understand that the AMD/Cyrix patches only add AMD specific code to the CPU identification so they can't help me.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Clearly, I can't give the motherboard back as it works fine with Windoze 95.
Felix
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