From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 6:13:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.svr.pol.co.uk (mail5.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F9237B424 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 06:13:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dvdnews.co.uk) Received: from modem-103.mendelevium.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.70.103] helo=mark2) by mail5.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 14xTmY-0007Ww-00; Wed, 09 May 2001 14:13:35 +0100 Message-ID: <004501c0d889$d586e300$0400a8c0@mark2> From: "Mark Hughes" To: "John Van Sickle" , "Question-FreeBSD" References: <000f01c0d8fa$6ac78c60$3b4c0f18@CT37304A> Subject: Re: Asus A7M266 mobo problem. Please help Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:13:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I just built a new system using the A7M266 and it hangs when trying to > install 4.3. Has anybody who installed with this mobo had this problem? How does it hang exactly? What chipset is the A7M266 based on? is it the AMD760 or the VIA chipset? I've got a Biostar M7MIA motherboard with the AMD760 north bridge and the VIA south bridge (probably the same south bridge chip as the A7M266 even if the north bridge is different), and I'm having problems with hanging on install for 4.1-release.... I've no idea how to fix it, but if we can work out that we're both having the same problem then work out what common piece of hardware we have then maybe we might find something. Could be something to do with DDR RAM maybe? What processor are you using? I had a suspicion it was something to do with the VIA IDE controller chip...FreeBSD identifies it as a "VIA 82C686 ATA66 Controller". When it hangs, it's usually with a "panic: page fault syncing discs", so I'm guessing it's either the IDE controller or hard drive that's causing it. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message