From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 10:42:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 405E616A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:42:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D706C43D2D for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:42:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-208-232.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.208.232]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j06Ag9hY026929 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 05:42:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41DD15DB.2070103@mac.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 05:41:31 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kalin mintchev References: <53879.68.165.89.73.1104554054.squirrel@68.165.89.73> <59114.68.165.89.73.1104823413.squirrel@68.165.89.73> <20050104112246.GA14661@ipt.ru> <63115.68.165.89.73.1105006797.squirrel@68.165.89.73> In-Reply-To: <63115.68.165.89.73.1105006797.squirrel@68.165.89.73> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.8 required=5.5 tests=RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=disabled version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on pi.codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX halted X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:42:22 -0000 kalin mintchev wrote: > ok.. i tried installing 5.2.1 from iso. the same pain... > the machine has energy BIOS v6.00PG > board version tag is: > K7SEM Ver:1.1b 09/28/2001 [ ... ] Later on in this message you mentioned you were looking at amd64/5.3-REL, but from the name & date of the BIOS I think you have an AMD32 motherboard, not AMD64: http://www.ecsusa.com/products/k7sem.html If this is so, then you would certainly do better to install the 32-bit generic x86 version of FreeBSD 5.3. However, you also mentioned that Windows was blue-screening, which suggests that there may be other problems with the system as well, possibly a bad power supply or the like. -- -Chuck