On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 08:52:58PM -0500, safemode wrote:
> My KA7 can go over 160Mhz FSB
> Yes i know about memory speed limitions ..that's why you are able to choose
> HW clock - PCI so at those high speeds it's actually say 120Mhz - 33
> keeping you below or near 100 and not well over the spec of the ram. Anyway i
> dont go that high 110 is safe an doesn't cause any heat increase and gives me
> 100Mhz more. nbench shows my performance about equal to t-bird 1ghz. at least in
> memory and integer. The KA7 lets you increase the FSB without increasing the
> PCI bus speed, so i dont have to worry about changing ide bus timings, PCI is
> still at 33 - 34 not enough to hurt any cards.
Ugh. What chips your KA7 has? As far as I know the KX133 chip (vt8731)
can't do asynchronous PCI, allowing for 2x, 3x and 4x FSB/PCI divisors
only. So I don't a way to have your FSB at 114 and your PCI at 34 with
this chip.
> OK ok.. just forget i ever mentioned it .. It has nothing to do with anything
> i've been talking about problem wise because i _JUST_ did it now ... It is the
> cause of nothing because they all happened before i did anything to the speed.
> This is a 2.4.x kernel problem. It has nothing to do with overclocking because at
> the time i didn't. When i used 2.2.x it did not have any problems and i did not
> overclock. As of now i have no problems with ide resets or dma timeouts (which
> is what i said before), regardless of if i'm overclocking it now or not. It's
> working great (better than great) without changing anyhing in 2.2.19-pre7.
> heh. so everyone can stop flipping out over overclocking because i made sure
> hardware settings were default failsafe even before deciding it was definitely a
> kernel problem and i never had the settings over spec before the problem surfaced.
Ok. So do you still have a working 2.2 setup and a non-working 2.4
setup? Would you be able to send me the usual (lspci -vvxxx, dmesg,
hdparm -t /dev/hd*, hdparm -i /dev/hd*, cat /proc/ide/via) data for both
so that I can compare them?
If I find any differences, I'll know what the bug is.
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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs