>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 removed all the compotents and tried a second video card with no
lock.
>Finally, I replaced everything and started on changing BIOS settings.
>Finally, I disabled the secondary cache and the system worked fine. After
>this, I switched the jumpers on the memory from the SDRAM frequency from
>100MHz to 66MHz and reenabled the External Cache and the system still
locked
>up. I finally left system jumpers at 100MHz and disabled the External
Cache.


Well I just changed the jumpers un the MB so that the CPU Frequency is set
at 66MHz and the CPU Multiplier is set at 4.5. The external cache now
functions without any problems. My next question, does this mean that the
Bus is running at 66MHz and not 100MHz? If this is the case, I would
strongly discourage anyone from buying the PCChips M577. Why would the cache
would when the CPU frequency is set at 66 X 4.5 and not at 100  X 3?

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