Bad characters in Asus A8N-VM CSM

Thu Dec 22 03:03:12 PST 2005

[Reply to self for more info.]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> FreeBSD 5.1-R amd64 boots just fine on the machine, so I do have _some_ tools
> for the machine. 6.0-R without ACPI hangs, and 6.0-R with ACPI craps out
> immediately with the following error:

Without ACPI, or with APIC disabled in the BIOS: hangs after "Timecounters 
tick every 1.000 msec"; with APIC enabled fails with bad 
characters.