overclocking problem....;i think

doralsoral · 03-16-2004, 09:55 PM

OK ive got an AMD athlon 2500 and i installed slackware 9.1 while it was at the stock speed. after a while i upped it to 2.2Ghz and it was doin fine. then i reformatted and installed slack again fresh while it was running at 2.2 and ever since then it booted up a bit slower and gaim would freeze alot. no wits back at 1.8 but still the same performance. anyone know what the deal is?

DrOzz · 03-16-2004, 10:05 PM

maybe you have to enable dma on your harddrive ...
what is the output of :
hdparm -d /dev/hda

that is assuming your harddrive is hda ... change if necessary ...
if it says :
/dev/hda:
using_dma = 0 (off)

then you will type :
hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
to activate it ..

all the commands above are to be done as root ..

doralsoral · 03-17-2004, 05:22 AM

it says its using dma channel 1, like i said it was doing fine when i installed it while it was running at stock speed. should i reinstall it at sock speed?