On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Alex Boag-Munroe wrote:
> The AMD 750 boards use an AMD chipset...the VIA one uses the VIA KX133
> chipset. I will check the sites tho...
>
There are two via chips for Athlon: the 6cIdontknowwhat series and the KX133
series. AMD 750 is also known as IronGate.
Unlike the IronGate, the KX133 can lead the FSB up to 133 MHz. Great impact on
performance when you combine it with the appropriate RAM.
> >
> > One is an AOpen KX133 board. This all works fine, except when I install
> the
> > Aureal Vortex 2 driver onto my system, any attempt at playing a sound
> locks
> > the system solid. (I know this is not a Linux issue as it does this in
> > Windows also).
> >
If your mobo allows you to modify the bus frequency and/or multipliers, check
that the PCI bus does not exceed 33 MHz.
Many problems occur with overclocked PCI buses, not because of the bus itself,
but because of peripherals which won't work well at such a bus speed. NVidia
graphic chipsets are one example, the aic7xxx SCSI series from Adaptec are
another one.
> > The other is a Microstar K7M, with the AMD 750 chipset. After a fresh
> > install of MDK 7.1, it hangs when "Starting hard drive optimisations for
> > HDC). It starts the optimisations for hda just fine.
> >
> > ARGH!
> >
Bios settings?
Is hdc actually a hard disk?
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"You can tune a filesystem but you can't tuna fish" (HP/UX' tunefs manpage)
