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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.funet.fi!sauna.cs.hut.fi!elvis.clinet.fi!zetor.clinet.fi!jeppe From: jeppe@clinet.fi (Joachim Paganus) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: math co-prosessor broken? Date: 24 Sep 94 23:22:54 GMT Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <jeppe.780448974@zetor.clinet.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: zetor.clinet.fi X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) I have a 386/40 machine with a Cyrix 387DX+ (387DX-40) math co-prosessor and FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 Every now and then the os says at bootup npx0: marked broken. I'm quite sure that there is nothing wrong with the chip itself, because it runs just fine with everything else, and most of the time with freebsd too. I suspect some incompatibility problems, since one dos test program made by Cyrix said that my chip is abaut 5 % faster than an equivalent Cyrix chip! (As I said previously, my chip IS a Cyrix chip) Has anyone else had this kind of problems? Any suggestions other than buing a new chip, or using the emulator? Thanks -- Joachim Paganus jeppe@clinet.fi