Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:30:59 -0500 From: Jeremy Vandenhouten <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: K7V problem? Message-ID: <24d9f1f066.1f06624d9f@marquette.edu>
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I've also seen the lockup problem when you have boot-virus protection enabled in the bios... Whenever you install a new OS make sure this is disabled... ----- Original Message ----- From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> Date: Friday, October 13, 2000 9:40 am Subject: K7V problem? > > I recently upgraded my personal machine, and am having a problem > attempting to install FreeBSD. It appears to be a hardware issue, > whichis why I'm sending this here. > > The machine in question is an Athlon/850 on an Asus K7V (BIOS > 1007) with a > 256M PC-133 DIMM. > > Motherboard devices are channel 1 of IDE controller, with LS-120 > attached,serial 1 enabled, LPT enabled in ECP mode(DMA 3), two USB > controllers, and > floppy controller (no floppies drives, but no option to disable the > onboard contoller). > > PCI devices are Creative 3D Blaster Annihilator2 (GeForce2 GTS > 32MB AGP), > Canopus Pure3D2 (Voodoo2 12MB), Intel EtherExpress Pro/100+, > Adaptec 2940 > UW SCSI, and SoundBlaster Live!. > > SCSI devices are IBM 4.3G UW, Seagate 4.0G UN, Plextor UltraPlex > (32x),Plextor UltraPlex 40max, Plextor PlexWriter 8/20, and > Archive Python 4mm > DDS2 tape drive. > > The machine will not boot a FreeBSD cdrom, nor will it boot a FreeBSD > floppy. Of interest is that it will boot a Windows NT cdrom, but > not a > Win98 floppy. It will boot Win9x(DOS) or NT install floppy just > fine as > well. > > When attempting to boot from the CD, the machine locks immediately > afterthe adaptec card reports "SCSI BIOS installed successfully". > Hard locks. > requires hard reset. This is the same for a Win98 CD. Something > in the > way FBSD and Win98 load themselves into memory is obviously unhappy. > > If I attempt to boot from a floppy, the machine gets to the point > where it > reads from the floppy, and then stops. No output to screen of any > sort. > I can ctrl-alt-del at that point, so it's not as bad as the cd lockup. > > I'm considering maybe removing the LS-120 and trying a traditional > floppydrive to see if that works, but I really like, and want to > keep my LS-120 > drive. The optimal solution is to figure out why it won't boot > from the > CD direct, but I'll take booting from floppy. > > As a side note, OS/2 warp boots most of it's second floppy, but > dies as > well. I'm certain OS/2's problem is complete lack of clue on how > to deal > with the LS-120 though. > > I'm sure others out there are using this motherboard, and I would > reallyappreciate any input that can be offered. > > Jamie Bowden > > -- > "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" > Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" > Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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