Defective L2 cache -- next steps

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:19:29PM -0500, Logan Rathbone wrote:
> Yeah, that's pretty much what I've gathered from the time I discovered it was busted 'til now.  The performance hit is unfortunately drastic, so what I've had to do is leave it on, which is fine for ordinary computer stuff, but if I desperately need to compile something that won't compile without an ICE, I've rebooted and disabled the L2.
>
> It's an AMD Athlon XP 2200 1.8 GHz

At least picking up a new Athlon Xp 2500 to 2800 range should be
possible pretty cheap while they are still possible to get.

Lennart Sorensen
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