From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 17:40:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail19.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail19.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984C737B424 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 17:40:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnandsamson@home.com) Received: from CT37304A ([24.15.76.59]) by femail19.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010510004036.RHTQ98.femail19.sdc1.sfba.home.com@CT37304A>; Wed, 9 May 2001 17:40:36 -0700 Message-ID: <001801c0d9b3$ba886c10$3b4c0f18@CT37304A> From: "John Van Sickle" To: "Mark Hughes" Cc: "Question-FreeBSD" References: <000f01c0d8fa$6ac78c60$3b4c0f18@CT37304A> <004501c0d889$d586e300$0400a8c0@mark2> Subject: Re: Asus A7M266 mobo problem. Please help Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:45:50 -0500 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 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark, I'm using the Asus A7M266, which uses the AMD 761 northbridge and the VIA 686B southbridge, with a 1.33ghz Thunderbird, 256mb DDR Crucial PC2100 CAS 2.5, IBM 75GXP 75gb harddrive, Intel etherexpress (fxp0). It always hangs after probing the harddrive. OpenBSD and NetBSD install fine but FreeBSD 4.2, 4.3, and -CURRENT choke. I talked to a guy who was only using SCSI with my board and it was working fine for him so it must be the southbridge thats hanging : ( Wish I could afford a SCSI setup. If anyone knows of a patch or workaround please let me know. -John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Hughes" To: "John Van Sickle" ; "Question-FreeBSD" Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 8:13 AM Subject: Re: Asus A7M266 mobo problem. Please help > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message