BTX halted

[Chuck Swiger]

kalin mintchev wrote:
> ok..  i tried installing 5.2.1 from iso. the same pain...
> the machine has energy BIOS v6.00PG
> board version tag is:
> K7SEM Ver:1.1b 09/28/2001
[ ... ]

Later on in this message you mentioned you were looking at amd64/5.3-REL, but 
  from the name & date of the BIOS I think you have an AMD32 motherboard, not 
AMD64:  http://www.ecsusa.com/products/k7sem.html

If this is so, then you would certainly do better to install the 32-bit 
generic x86 version of FreeBSD 5.3.  However, you also mentioned that Windows 
was blue-screening, which suggests that there may be other problems with the 
system as well, possibly a bad power supply or the like.

-- 
-Chuck