Re: RAM check - Followup question

2006-01-27 Thread Billy Tallis
It might be as simple as the bios settings. Which memtest tests gave errors? Assuming that you have not upgraded the ram or anything like that, it is probably the chipset. What type of chipset do you have? On 1/27/06, Philip Juels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curious...the system is a Dell Optiplex

Re: BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-14 Thread Billy Tallis
On 11/13/05, Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/14/05 07:54 Billy Tallis said the following: I am trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a Toshiba Sat. Pro 445CDX laptop with no floppy drive. This laptop has a pentium processor and 16MB of ram. 16MB of RAM, that doesnt sound like much

Re: BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-14 Thread Billy Tallis
On 11/14/05, Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/14/05 23:56 Billy Tallis said the following: The real problem is that BTX never gets around to loading any kernel. what are the errors you're getting at the btx boot: prompt ? There are no errors at the boot: prompt. It is when I hit

BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-13 Thread Billy Tallis
I am trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a Toshiba Sat. Pro 445CDX laptop with no floppy drive. This laptop has a pentium processor and 16MB of ram. When I boot to the installation cd, I get the register dump and BTX halted message, and the screen then goes blank but the power stays on. I have disabled