you unknowingly got the AMD K6-3. these were usually repackaged here in the phil as some K6-2 variation. the K6-3 has an L2 cache which conflicts with any Socket7 board with builtin L2 cache. the trick therefore to make it work is either disable the processor's cache (not a very good idea) or disable the motherboard cache (much preferable) or toggle the board's cache to run as an L3.
disabling the processor cache, which you did, will make *any* processor (intel/amd) horribly slow. processor engineers confirm that the efficiency of any processor is largely attributed to the type of cache it has. that's why builtin processor caches on the best cpu as much as possible have their speed in sync with the processor speed and the come in much larger sizes today. ever wondered the major difference beween a plain Pentium processor with it's Xeon version? it's the 2MB+ full-speed cache. =) the difference between a celeron and a pentium? it's the cache =) > AMD K6-II 500MHz a year ago. After building my own PC from parts I bought > from several places, the system can not install any OS. Not wanting to > surrerder, I did everything I can until I found out that the only way I > could install an OS is by disabling the level 2 cache. It worked but the > whole system became excruciatingly slow. Slower than a 486. That time I > decided to return the cpu and motherboard and pay a P1.5K premium for > Celeron 500MHz. Since then, the system has not let me down. > I am not from Intel either. > > rowel > _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
