Dennis:
It sounds to me like you have a bad L2 cache chip.  Running without it
will significantly decrease your system's performance. As an example,
the difference between the Pentium II and Celeron chips is lack of L2
cache on the Celeron, and there is obviously a huge difference between
those chips.  On Socket 7/Super 7 boards the cache runs at the the
system bus speed, in your case it should be 100 MHZ.  I'd return the
motherboard and ask for a replacement.

Dan Shaughnessy

> 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.
>
> 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?
>

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