Re: VIA KT133A / athlon / MMX

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Sat, 28 Jul 2001 08:37:24 +1200


On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:19:21PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

Its heavily tied to certain motherboards. Some people found a
better PSU fixed it, others that altering memory settings
helped. And in many cases, taking it back and buying a different
vendors board worked.

Does anyone know *why* stuff breaks? surely VIA do as they have a fix
for (some, all?) cases of breakage?

My guess is its some kind of timing or near-miss on a signal edge, and
the bios changes relax things so you don't miss whatever it was you
missed before.

--cw
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