From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:54:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:54:11 -0400 Received: from cpe-24-221-114-147.az.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.114.147]:49280 "EHLO localhost.digitalaudioresources.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:54:06 -0400 Message-ID: <3BA1472E.2000008@digitalaudioresources.org> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:54:22 -0700 From: David Hollister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010808 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Conquering the Athlon optimization troubles Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hey folks, The last thing I was going to try to do to get my system working with Athlon optimization was to flash my BIOS to the latest rev. Unfortunately, I discovered that my BIOS was apparently locked and would not take an update. My motherboard is the Epox 8KTA3+, and I'm running an Athlon 1.4GHz. Epox was kind enough to mail me a new BIOS chip to replace my locked chip. This chip contained a version of the BIOS that I believe was dated 8/6/2001 (I don't feel like rebooting again to find out). Suffice it to say, that version is not listed on their website, but there is an even newer one. For anybody with the 8KTA3 or 8KTA3+, the BIOS page is located at http://www.epox.com/html/english/support/motherboard/bios/8kt3.htm Anyway, I was running the BIOS dated 3/5/2001 up until now. The point to all this is that with the newer BIOS, my machine is now up and running absolutely fine with Athlon optimization turned on. Happy day (well, as happy as a day can be this week) -- David Hollister Driversoft Engineering: http://devicedrivers.com Digital Audio Resources: http://digitalaudioresources.org