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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

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