Date: 07 Sep 2001 18:19:32 -0500 From: Jeremy <thinker5555@yahoo.com> To: Dan Thill <thill@umr.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Needing help with installation... Message-ID: <87heuetwqj.fsf@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3B95987F.429E306D@umr.edu> References: <87y9nt6ssm.fsf@yahoo.com> <3B95987F.429E306D@umr.edu>
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Dan Thill <thill@umr.edu> writes: > I had this problem as well with a system with all PnP, non-generic hardware. > Needless to say, I was ticked off about it. I had an ASUS K7V motherboard that > certain slots shared irq's. I had to rearrange my cards around some until I > found something that worked. I ended up putting my soundcard in a slot that > shared an irq with my GeForce video card. The card was originally in a slot > that shared with USB. I'm assuming that it was probing an IRQ, two devices > answered, and made it lock. > > Also, try turning off the "Plug n Play OS" in your BIOS. Before I turned this > off, the kernel would see all the devices, and print a message, but would be > unable to assign them addresses. > > Hope this helps... Ah! Thank you very much! I had thought of the switching my cards around just in passing once, but after you suggested it, I did it, and it worked just fine, so I finally got FreeBSD installed last evening. (Wow, kids! Can we say "run on sentence?") Heh, thanks again, Jeremy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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