Weird incompatibility of compaq evo 510 PCs
Vittorio
vdemart1 at tin.it
Tue Oct 11 07:33:56 PDT 2005
At office I have an old compaq 450 (p3, 450MHz,128MB) working as a
postgresql 8.03 server under freebsd 5.4.
Now having the chance of
substituting it with a newer Compaq Evo 510 (p4,2,8 GHz, 512MB) to be
on the safe side I tested this new pc trying to run freesbie 1.1 on it
from a CD. Unfortunately after showing the usual line with
root at casad'amico etc.. a cryptic message of fatal error popped up
saying something like:
int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030246
eip=00003034 eax=0000205d
ebx=00000004
etc, etc.
Furthermore,
identical diagnostics popped up trying to boot FreeBSD from the
primary hd of the old pc mounted on this new one.
Thinking that there
was something wrong with that specific box only I tried:
a) to boot
freesbie on other compaq evo 510 in my office but all of them failed to
boot with the same (or similar??) diagnostics;
b) the freesbie cd is ok
having tested it on other boxes;
b) using a cd for the installation of
M$ windows on the evo 510 it all works like a charm and everything is
installed.
My questions are:
1) Is this a known incompatibility of the
Compaq evo 510 PCs ( a search in the internet didn't shed any light on
it!);
2) Is there any way to overcome the problem and how?
Ciao
Vittorio
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