Are you sure it's a "G"? I just looked at my motherboard and the SRAM
chips, which I assume are the cache memory, look like they're made by
UMC.
In any case, I'm not sure what I'm going to do now, about a week ago I
sent an email to the place I bought the motherboard and I sent another
email to Tyan and never got a reply from either. This will definitely
be the last Tyan motherboard I ever buy.
Mike
Martin Imrisek wrote:
>
> Hi Mike:
>
> There was a known problem last year with Tomcat IV having a bad batch of
> cache
> memory. Tyan was slow to aknowledge it initially, but they did in the
> end. Check the name of
> the maker of the cache chips. If it is G* (starts with G) then it is a
> bad batch. Unfortunately I don't have any more details. The best course
> of action is to let your dealer know of this and to order a board without
> cache made by the suspect manufacturer. Tyan seems to have better support
> for distributors than for individual customers.
>
> I had mine replaced and I've not had any problems since.
> The only thing is that since a few kernel version back I've had a rather
> nasty clock drift. Is anyone working on that?
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Martin Imrisek " I get knocked down, but I get up again
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're never going to keep me down. "
>
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Mike Roda wrote:
>
> > Does anybody else think Tyan motherboards are crap? I'm on my third 1564D, the
> > first two were bad right out of the box, now this one is going bad after only
> > using it for a few months. On all 3 of the boards the cache memory went bad.
> > I don't know what to do because the place I bought it doesn't carry any other
> > types of dual pentium style boards and I don't really want another one of these
> > lousy boards. Does anybody know where I can buy a better dual motherboard that
> > will accept dual pentium (133) CPUs?
> >
> > I can just disable the L2 cache in the bios but I'm seeing a 45% decrease in
> > performance when I do so.
> >
> > (Please respond directly back to me, I'm not getting messages from the mailing
> > list yet, thanks)
> >
> > Mike
> >
