> > Is your processor overclocked?
> > > I am running linux on a 486 DX4 133Mhz machine and it is very unstable.
> > > I run this machine as a terminal server, and it is on all the time. What
> > > happens is that I get segmentation faults, page faults, sector misreads,
> > > everything strange. I though it was the hard drive, so I replaced it
> > > with a brand new WD 1.6Gb and the problem still remained. It is a brand
> > > new 486/PCI motherboard (do not know who it is made by) and a really old
> > > video card. Other than that there is a PCI network card 3C905 (problems
> > > were before it too) and a Comtrol RocketPort 8port ISA controller.
> -It's actually probably a later 486 generation AMD processor.
> -Sean P. Sitter
I had an almost similar problem too: i used the amd x5/133 in a board
with sis-chipset and had very strange errors. this chipset wasn't able
to use my EDO-DRAMs i had installed, with FPM-DRAM all was ok. another
thing is the first level cache mode. if you have WriteBAck there its
faster, but som boards don't support this correctly, maybe try switching
to Write through, even if it's a little bit slower.
I use a amd x5 overcloced to 160Mhz in a UMC8881 chipset board with
L1-write-trough and edo-ram and it works great.
even with the low ram performance of the umc-chipset... :)
- Florian Schiel
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