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some AMD cpus (the k6 and k7 in particular) suffer from the "hlt bug"
when used with ceartain chipsets (youll never know which they wont get
along with till you try -- it even happenes to some OEM boxen) and the
bug only shows when using NT/2k/xp versions of the 'doze and of course
linux... dos and 9x arent affected because they dont issue the 'hlt'
instruction... AFAIK there is no workaround for windows but in linux
just add append=no-hlt to lilo.conf or to the loadlin line and linux
will run fine...

if the owner of that k7 insists on XP there -might- be a workaround
thats not well known to fix it but it may not be easy to find

if the system uses a VIA chipset install the "via pci latency patch"
(windows) and it will (should anyway) cure the hangs;
http://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/


On 24/03/07, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/cpuburn-static.tgz
> 6263 bytes mostly documentation.
>
> Unpackage to a floppy disk, and copy one (or all - about 3K total) of
> these tiny files (pick the one that matches your CPU type such as AMD K7)
> to the free space on a BL #2 boot disk. (Steven has provided lots of extra
> space in BL3.50).  Boot to linux, do NOT mount any file systems, and then
> from the floppy disk run burnK7, for example, to try to crash your system.
> It stresses the cpu and board and preserves errors - code 254 for
> integer/memory error and 255 for FP/MMX error.  There are also two RAM
> testers included.
>
> Intel burnP5 burnP6
> AMD   burnK6 burnK7
>
> Someone asked us to try to fix a K7 system that 'hangs' and we would like
> to make it crash without adding XP first.
>
> Billed as the cpu equivalent of memtest, but this was compiled to be run
> from a linux root/boot disk.  It passed memtest and the PSU voltages are
> correct.  We have a spare CPU.
>
> Sindi
>
> keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org



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