From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 14 00:09:18 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 E3E0916A4CE for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:09:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-04-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-04-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3CE643D1F for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:09:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from [65.184.209.112] (cpe-065-184-209-112.ec.res.rr.com [65.184.209.112])j3E09DL4027233; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:09:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <425DB747.40506@ec.rr.com> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:20:23 -0400 From: jason henson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050321) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: emartinez@crockettint.com References: <20050413061042.53D2D378C2@mxc1.crockettint.com> In-Reply-To: <20050413061042.53D2D378C2@mxc1.crockettint.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 (former i386 convert)+ FreeBSD various issues in 5.3, 5.4 (pre+post install) 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, 14 Apr 2005 00:09:19 -0000 Edgar Martinez wrote: >All, > > > >I cant begin to tell you how horrible of a time I have had trying to get >this system installed and running. Sysinstall kept throwing up a privilege >fault kernel error randomly (7sed...4m.7m..etc), and after I go fast enough >to get lucky to an install complete..the system then spends its time >periodically rebooting.this is the first venture into AMD64 turf as I >historically stick with i386.so any pointers.gotchas.tweaks or tips.. please >let me know..I really don't want to give up, so I want to see what can be >done to stabilize this. > > > >MSI K8T Neo > >AMD64 3000 w/1MB > > > > I was just reading the archives this week at freebsd.org and it leads me to believe msi make crap boards. They can not handle tough loads or lots of ram. I think it was in the amd64 list under a heading that mentioned 8gig of ram. There were several developers that just trashed there msi boards and all the rest of there hardware worked fine in a new board. You should look it up.