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buggy ACPI on board versus HW failure Re: no SMP without ACPI ...
I have now tried Installation, Installation no ACPI and Installation safe mode. On the latter, I chose to boot using LILO. It came up with some error messages I have noticed that during the installation boot up it describes the hard disc as CHS 19846:16:63 but fdisk -l shows cylinder ranges up to only 1245.

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One time it hung after configuring X. The last time I got a failure message during the software installation step but I continued on with grub etc. ..... CD is supported dmidecode: EDD is supported dmidecode: ACPI is supported dmidecode: USB legacy is supported dmidecode: AGP is supported dmidecode: LS-120 boot is

Bug#310446: Package: installation-reports - INSTALL REPORT net ...
You can only use ACPI on a P2B motherboard by forcing installation of the ACPI HAL with the F6/F5 trick during install. Standard disclaimers: Making major changes to your BIOS and to your operating system is an inherently risky operation and carries a non-trivial risk of catastrophic failure.

Widows 98 fails to start and is unstable
... and turning usb off and/or unplugging my usb devices didn't either. Hmm, what next... How much memory have you got in that machine? Have you tried with the boot parameters of acpi=off or apic=off HTH -- Mark Novell Support Forums SysOp Twixt hill and high water N. Wales, UK. Skype <my nick> text only please.

Total failure to install Win2k on KA7-100 - Help !!!!
Better candidates for working around the problem are booting with: acpi=off noapic nolapic or combinations of those. Progress bar window with "Detecting Can you try to run the installation in expert mode so we can see at exactly which step the failure occurs. We can try more debugging once we know this.

HAL upgrade failure: any advice please?
The bad driver .. turned into a hardware problem as well, or was finally provoked into a full failure for hardware by the trip up here in the trunk of the car. That, now, with the ACPI interface motherboards, appears to blow away OS/2's keyboard I/O drivers... The keyboard, is *INTERMITTENTLY* lost during the

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During the installation SUSE recognizes these hardware. However, when my machine is rebooted, none of them got initialized. The boot log shows failure on eth0 and Not sure on the board but try booting with the option "acpi=off" without the quotes, enter it at the first boot screen, the one with the countdown

Problem Installing Win2K Pro!
Tried F7 during setup to bypass the ACPI, bu no luck. Disabled the ACPI in the bios (supposed to counter false positives from MOBO that CPU is overheating), Failure to install an os usually is because of bad RAM, bad drives, bad m/b, etc. You'll need to do some hardware diagnosis. Of course, since you're an

Problem while installing FreeBSD 5.3 - ata0-master : FAILURE
Did a standard instal= l with acpi off. The media was ftp. I did a custom for my distrobution set.= I manually selected the packages i wanted. Then during the installation of= the packages, I get a kernel panic "init failure...nothing left to do. Hit= any key for console. Reboot. Rebooting".

Suse 9.1 personal install failure
It usually works for when I select safe mode during installation. If not try using with ACPI disabled. Once you are finished with the install you'll have to When kernel is finishing to load some messages like this appears= =20 ata0-master : FAILURE ATA-IDENTIFY timed out =20 After that, the installation program

We're Supposed To WANT Windows 2000?
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HAL upgrade failure: any advice please?
This condition usually indicates a media failure or a geometry mismatch." What does that actually mean and how would I go about resolving the problem? media During install, I always: use the MBR on the primary ide dirve with bios virus protect turned off, if it has one pick lilo boot loader with text menu

Still getting USB failures during install of 10.1 OE
Hardware: Conflict Central" library from the OnComputers newsgroup (this article was last updated August 1): SPECIFICS: Toshiba 100CT, 305CDS, 310C, 320CT, 320C, 330C, 490CDT, 490XCDT, 550CDT, 750CDT, 750CDM/DVD, 780CDM/DVD PROBLEM: During the Win98 installation, numerous ACPI settings are written to the Win98

503+ JE438 BIOS in Win2k, COM ports working fine
When I kept geting the error, even with acpi=off noapic nolapic on the boot command line, I tried the alt1 kernel (2.4.27-something), since I had never had problems with the 2.4 kernel and my USB. Well, MDK fscked something up, because even with the alt1 install kernel, I got the USB failure.

XP Pro install fails with a hardware error when windows is ...
Date: The last week of April and first three weeks of May were needed for this install due to difficulties and only being able to work on it a couple of .... ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @ 0x000fa010 ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMI OEMRSDT 0x11000426 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ffc0000 ACPI: FADT (v002 AMI OEMFACP 0x11000426 MSFT

Enabling acpi support renders system unbootable (was: kernel: ad8 ...
The theory is, the standard MS IDE driver will work with both Southbridges, and will allow the disk to be read during boot. ACPI HAL (because the P4B BIOS at the time had a broken ACPI implementation and it had to be turned off), so on the new machine I cannot have ACPI either, without doing a fresh install.

Mandriva LE 05 install problems.
K...@home.com alt comp periphs mainboard abit Switched off the ACPI and it installed no problem. However, like a fool I tried to switch it back on when it was Trying to install the HPT370 drivers from floppy during the windows 2000 install process (at the point where you get the F6 option), this failed everytime.

Problem while installing FreeBSD 5.3 - ata0-master : FAILURE ...
Oh, the problem: I was unable to install a 2.6 kernel directly with the 'install' boot item. It would repeatedly fail during installation of the base system with On noticing the failure I went into the shell on VT2 and tried manually mounting. I was able to get the cdrom to remount with: umount /cdrom mount -t

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Sol10 also relies on ACPI btw. Anyway, the same error happened a good way through the installation -- it rebooted itself during the high IO of out HW problems with the disk controller, and the problem persisted) The facts so far point more to ACPI being buggy on this board than to HW failure in my estimation.