Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 09:50:12 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: very strange boot panic--can someone shed some light? Message-ID: <20000517134930.HSIO22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <14623.27816.322396.777829@whale.home-net>
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On 15-May-00 John Reynolds wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I recently purchased an OEM Pentium III 500 to go into my Asus P2B-DS
> motherboard (which currently houses a Pentium II 450 nicely). After I seated
> the CPU and switched the jumpers to make the clock 500Mhz, I switched it
> on. The BIOS recognized the CPU as "Pentium III 500" and all seemed well until
> I hit RET to boot into FreeBSD. Immediately before I got the "booting kernel in
> 9 seconds" countdown, it rebooted.
>
> Upon rebooting, the BIOS could not initializes the video so all I got was "bios
> beep" errors.
>
> After doing this several times with cold shutdowns inbetween (scratching my
> head and wondering if I'd bought a lemon), I got this at the same place where
> it seemed to be spontaneously rebooting/dying:
>
> builtin: not found
> builtin: not found
> builtin: not found
> builtin: not found
> builtin: not found
> ... (bunches of these)
>
> int=00000006 err=00000000 efl=00010206 eip=0000dc70
^^^^^^^^
Invalid opcode. In other words, the code below at cs:eip is not a valid instruction.
> eax=000912bb ebx=0001c95c ecx=0009497c edx=0000dc3c
> esi=00000001 edi=00000001 ebp=00094980 esp=0009491c
> cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033
> cs: eip=5b 8d 55 f8 52 8d 55 fc-52 ff 75 08 e8 bf f8 ff
^^^^^^^
> ss: esp=01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00-80 49 09 00 3c 49 09 00
> System halted
My guess is you have a hardware problem, either CPU, Memory, motherboard, or whatever
disk you are booting off of.
> Does this mean anything to anybody or is there just not enough to go on? I was
> fairly sure that the P2B-DS supported the Pentium III up to 500 Mhz. I've got
> BIOS rev 1012 in there (which is only 1 rev behind the current one issued
> Apr. 18th). <major stunned look on face>.
>
> If you have any clues, please let me know. I've not found a friend yet with a
> Pentium III where I could plug this one into their moboard and see if it
> worked. I also don't have a "known good" proc. so debugging this is still kind
> of working in the dark.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jr
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