I have had odd behavior like you are describing with cheap motherboards. I ran all of the memory tests etc, and everything passed with flying colors. Despite passing all of the tests I could throw at the hardware, windows 2000 was very unstable. We ultimately ended up replacing the board.
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:59:13 +0000, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:29:43PM -0800, Jean Lagarde wrote: > > Thanks to all who replied. So it seems the consensus is a likely > > hardware issue, and I am leaning that way as well now. I will try the > > suggestion about disabling ACPI however. > > > > To address some of the other comments, that exact CPU-mobo-memory > > configuration worked fine running Win2000 for many years, so I doubt it > > is the problem per se. > > Doesn't rule out bugs in the ACPI support of your motherboard. Some > low-quality motherboards only implement an approximation to the ACPI > spec to a level that gets windows to run. > > Kris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
