> On Sunday 12 September 2004 02:56 pm, "Lee Harr" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On 2004-09-12, Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Well, I'm not entirely sure, either, but in any event I don't > think > > >you'll need to go that far. However, I think you'll probably have > to > > >stick with 5.x so that your hardware will be supported. > > > > Thanks for your help. Once I disabled firewire in the BIOS, the > > 5.3-beta3 booted and installed just fine. :o) > > That's funny ... you know, come to think of it I might have done this > a > long time ago, as I tend to configure the BIOS to just enable what I > need or might use. Also, dmesg doesn't seem to indicate firewire is > there, but there are a few unknowns that might be firewire. I > primarily > bought this board because of the AGP slot, Althon support and general > > reviews by overclockers and gamers, though I've read of some trouble > with RAID and firewire on some OSes but haven't tried it myself. I > figured if I really want to go with RAID I'll invest in a separate > controller with a good reputation. Anyhoot, for general use these > boards seem to work fine, and it sounds like it's not a big deal for > you to not have firewire support, so there ya go. Have fun! :) > > - jt
You might also try disabling ACPI; I have the same board and this worked for me. Of course, getting the other onboard stuff to work properly has been a whole different challenge.... ~John _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com/backtoschool _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"