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At 12:39 PM -0500 10/10/00, Derrick Fogle wrote:
Re: Won''t Quit - freezes when you try.
From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2000
Time: 11:18:39 am
>on 10/10/00 11:56 AM, Men & Mice Support at cbuxton@menandmice.com wrote:
>
>> Good. Anecdotal evidence suggests that CPU upgrades and QuickDNS
>> don't get along well.
>
>FYI
>
>As I was 'testing' QDNS, I set up my primary on a 7100/80 machine. I then
>set up my secondary on a 7100/66 with a NewerTechnology G3/300 board in it.
>Both have 80Mb RAM in them. Over several weeks, I noticed the primary had
>application errors a couple of times.
>
>To boost primary performance, I ended up swapping the drives between the two
>machines, making the one with the upgrade card my primary, and the
>non-upgraded 7100/80 the secondary (and moving my accellerator extenstions,
>of course). Since I've done that, neither unit has crashed or locked up.
Not surprising. The only explanation that makes sense is that the
problem is caused by the cache bug, which -should- only affect 604
motherboards that have been upgraded to G3 processors.
Since the 7100 is a 601 design, it should be OK with an upgrade.
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