FreeBSD and VIA K8M800 chipset

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 3/1/06, mnavarre at cox.net <mnavarre at cox.net> wrote:
> I just got a new computer with a ECS KDM800-M2 motherboard. Does anyone
> know of any problem with this chipset/motherboard?
>
> I've tried installing 6.0/i386 and 5.4/i386 on it with no luck. 6.0 failed
> installing from the CD with sh segfaulting in pkg_add, and then panics on
> startup when trying to mount /.
>
> 5.4 installed fine, but various things (dmesg, more, reboot) either segfault or
> bus error.
>
> I suspect that it's got a bad stick of RAM, but I'd just like to make sure there's
> no known problems with this MB.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
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There are some known problems with ACPI/APIC, but
none close to what you describe. Try tweaking the bios
options - and if it doesn't help RAM is your main suspect.