At 10:42 PM 10/17/1998 Dennis Noble wrote:
>
>I just built a new PC using a PC Chips M577 Super Socket 7 motherboard and
>an AMD K6-2 3D CPU using PC-100 a 64MB 8ns SDRAM. After the system was
>put together, it kept freezing up and showing trash on the video once it
froze
>up. . . .I finally left system jumpers at 100MHz and disabled the External
Cache.
>
>Has anyone had any problems such as this and what type of performance hit
>does one take leaving the external cache disabled sence the reguar memory is
>running a 8ns. What speed does cache memory function at?


Dennis:

I believe the cache must be rated at 5 nanoseconds.

What is the Chipset make (hope it's not a "-Pro" chipset
which many PC Chip boards use)?  Can you run the memory
bus asynchronously?

Regards,

John Chin

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