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From: lim@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Carmay Lim)
Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Problems with PVI-486AP4, NCR53c810 and FBSD 2.0
Date: 22 Feb 1995 12:56:40 GMT
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ORLANDO JOSE VALLE (quantum@mercury.sfsu.edu) wrote:
:
: The fix after I and alot of
: other people using the same and a one other type board post the problem
: under comp.os.linux. is  to change the jumper settings to not use the
: green features. On the asus ap4 set jumpers jp19 and jp18 depending on
: what cpu you are using.

    According to my AP4 manual, JP18 and JP19 only select the type of
CPU that's plugged into the socket.  I don't see anything in the manual
that disables the "green" power management features of the
motherboard.  Should I try setting it to, say, an Intel processor
(which does support greeness)?  I don't want to risk frying my nice AMD
CPU though.  ;-)