From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 17 22:35:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.pa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.pa.home.com [24.2.5.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15D9C14CC3 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 22:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from napalmski@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.5.63.201]) by mail.rdc1.pa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990818053606.BWLK24014.mail.rdc1.pa.home.com@home.com>; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 22:36:06 -0700 Message-ID: <37BA4530.5F4DF72F@home.com> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 01:31:28 -0400 From: "James F. Young" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Probing Devices... Computer Freeze References: <000f01bee937$b40ee260$12ec1ed1@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alex, I am in a similar situation with one of my machines (the one which I had in mind to house bsd permanently) Since this is my first install of bsd, I am temporarily going to do this on a different machine altogether. Once I am clear on what I need to ftp from the net I will be attempting what I am about to suggest to you. One of the easiest ways to approach this might be to strip the machine to its bare essentials, pulling your sound card, nic and anything else you don't need and try again. (my blind guess *not knowing your system* is that it may be a nic and something else) Try booting again and if you get past the "probing" stage then you have at least narrowed down the possibilites of where the conflict may be coming from. (it still freezes consult your bios and diable any serial ports your not actively using, if that doesnt work then you may have seriouse hardware issues) Replace the components you pulled one at a time until if freezes again and then you will have one of the devices that is having a conflict identified. Determine address and irq of that device and then figure out what else is trying to use the same resources. hope that helps jim Alex wrote: > When I try to install freeBSD ver 3.2 my computer freezes > when the message "Probing Devices..." appears on the screen. I've been > to the freebsd.org web sight and I've tried disabling some of my > devices but I still get stuck at the same > place. > HELP! > Thanks, Alex (new to > FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message