Hi, I found that Cyrix was NOT the cause of my problem. I have bad memory chips. As soon as I switched the memory everything is working fine. By the way, I think with help of set86 utility and a good fan -- that processor runs even cooler than a 100MHz Intel (IHMO). As far as clocking -- I have Cyrix 150 -- my motheboard supports 66, 75, 83 MHz bus speed -- so I choose 75Mhz for the MB speed and 2x for the chip speed -- it all works out OK.
As I side note -- I put the bad memory into Intel P100 machine running NT -- after a couple of hours of working it crashed the machine in a way that I have reinstall the whole OS (one startup dll is missing or corrupt). Is there a program for Linux (or DOS) that will detect bad memory? Regards, Vladislav >---------- >From: Al Youngwerth[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, October 24, 1997 5:25 PM >To: Vladislav Papayan x285 >Cc: Joost Kooij >Subject: RE: [Q] Cyrix 6x86L > >At 08:34 PM 10/24/97 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: >> >>Hi Al, >> >>Thanks, you might well be right. I didn't even think of the heat Cyrix >>generates and the problems it causes. >> >>BTW I have a 486/66 here at work and I too got sig11 problems one morning >>just after I had turned the machine on. After it had warmed up a bit, the >>problem was gone. Weird hey? Now I just leave the machine on overnight - >>better for my cron jobs too. >> >>It was actually Vladislav Papayan x285 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who had >>the problem. You may want to inform him also :-) > >Whoops, thanks. I meant to hit reply all. > >Hope this helps Vladislav... > >> >>On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Al Youngwerth wrote: >> >>> >> I also found a utility that seems to tune Cyrix processors. It is >>> >> called set6x86 -- it looks very promising as it can tell the processor >>> >> to go into a special low consumption mode when it is on HALT >>>instruction >>> >> (which is 90% of the time). >>> > >>> >It will cool the processor and probably elongate its lifespan. But it has >>> >no relation to your problem AFAIK. >>> > >>> >Luck, >>> > >>> > >>> >Joost >>> > >>> >>> My experience is that heat can definetely cause these types of problems. >>> Cooler the better... >>> >>> Also, you said this was a P200 Cyrix, I think that should actually be >>> clocked at 166Mhz, the P200 is just a marketing gimick. Make sure you have >>> the right speed. >>> >>> Good luck, >>> >>> >>> Al Youngwerth >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >> >> >> >> >Al Youngwerth >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
