: :I looked up this box and it looks pretty interesting, but I don't have :funds to buy one for myself at the moment. Is the motherboard logic any :different from normal NF4 boards? Could you try booting the FreeBSD :6.0-bootonly disk to see if at least sysinstall comes up and can talk :to your drives and network chips? : :Scott I'd be happy to. If you point me at an ISO image I can boot it up and try to run through the install. Even better if its SMP (I think all FreeBSD distributions are SMP by default now, right?). I suspect that the MB logic is considerably different. I have an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe NF4 system as well (its our package building box), also with an AMD X2 in it, and it did not exhibit any of the problems I have had with the shuttle. The ASUS has a different ethernet device... sk driver instead of nv. The BIOS on that MB also reports reasonable numbers in the MPTable and otherwise seems to be less confused then Shuttle's BIOS. The MP Table on the ASUS lists 6 pure PCI busses while the one on the Shuttle lists only 3. Both MB's have only one IO APIC. The BIOSes are clearly very different. Shuttle's is more 'raw'. -MattReceived on Thu Nov 17 2005 - 22:54:16 UTC
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