Hi Mike:
There was a known problem last year with Tomcat IV having a bad batch of
cache
memory. Tyan was slow to aknowledge it initially, but they did in the
end. Check the name of
the maker of the cache chips. If it is G* (starts with G) then it is a
bad batch. Unfortunately I don't have any more details. The best course
of action is to let your dealer know of this and to order a board without
cache made by the suspect manufacturer. Tyan seems to have better support
for distributors than for individual customers.
I had mine replaced and I've not had any problems since.
The only thing is that since a few kernel version back I've had a rather
nasty clock drift. Is anyone working on that?
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Martin Imrisek " I get knocked down, but I get up again
[EMAIL PROTECTED] You're never going to keep me down. "
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Mike Roda wrote:
> Does anybody else think Tyan motherboards are crap? I'm on my third 1564D, the
> first two were bad right out of the box, now this one is going bad after only
> using it for a few months. On all 3 of the boards the cache memory went bad.
> I don't know what to do because the place I bought it doesn't carry any other
> types of dual pentium style boards and I don't really want another one of these
> lousy boards. Does anybody know where I can buy a better dual motherboard that
> will accept dual pentium (133) CPUs?
>
> I can just disable the L2 cache in the bios but I'm seeing a 45% decrease in
> performance when I do so.
>
> (Please respond directly back to me, I'm not getting messages from the mailing
> list yet, thanks)
>
> Mike
>
