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From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com>
To: "mnavarre@cox.net" <mnavarre@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and VIA K8M800 chipset
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On 3/1/06, mnavarre@cox.net <mnavarre@cox.net> wrote:
> I just got a new computer with a ECS KDM800-M2 motherboard. Does anyone
> know of any problem with this chipset/motherboard?
>
> I've tried installing 6.0/i386 and 5.4/i386 on it with no luck. 6.0 faile=
d
> installing from the CD with sh segfaulting in pkg_add, and then panics on
> startup when trying to mount /.
>
> 5.4 installed fine, but various things (dmesg, more, reboot) either segfa=
ult or
> bus error.
>
> I suspect that it's got a bad stick of RAM, but I'd just like to make sur=
e there's
> no known problems with this MB.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
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There are some known problems with ACPI/APIC, but
none close to what you describe. Try tweaking the bios
options - and if it doesn't help RAM is your main suspect.