Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 06:55:05 -0500 (EST) From: "kalin mintchev" <kalin@el.net> To: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX halted Message-ID: <57162.24.90.34.93.1105012505.squirrel@24.90.34.93> In-Reply-To: <41DD15DB.2070103@mac.com> 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>
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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.... > > --
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