From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 11:54:07 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 3582016A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:54:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.el.net (mail.el.net [68.165.89.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A174543D3F for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:54:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kalin@el.net) Received: (qmail 34764 invoked by uid 1008); 6 Jan 2005 11:55:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.el.net) (127.0.0.1) by mail.el.net with SMTP; 6 Jan 2005 11:55:05 -0000 Received: from 24.90.34.93 (SquirrelMail authenticated user kalin@el.net); by mail.el.net with HTTP; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 06:55:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <57162.24.90.34.93.1105012505.squirrel@24.90.34.93> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 06:55:05 -0500 (EST) From: "kalin mintchev" To: "Chuck Swiger" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal 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> <41DD15DB.2070103@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <41DD15DB.2070103@mac.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 11:54:07 -0000 thanks for the reply... > 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 ok. this is probably it..... > > If this is so, then you would certainly do better to install the 32-bit generic x86 version of FreeBSD 5.3. ok. i thought you can not install x86 versions on systems with amd cpus. i'll try that... kinda new to amd - always used intel. > 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. will double check power supply... > > -- > -Chuck thank you.... > > --