AN8 motherboard SATA issues?

[Noble Hays]

Noble Hays wrote:

> Well, My father and I are attempteing to move to the 64 bit universe, 
> and  so far, no good.
>
> We recived our purchase from new egg and now have a machine with the 
> following specs:
> A-Bit AN8 Guru board
> AMD 64 3000+
> NVidia GeForce 6600 PCI-E
> 512 DDR 400
> 2x Segate SATA 150 80.0GB Harddrives
> 1 120GB Segate Harddrive(not recived yet)
> AOpen DVD+-RW DL
> I downloaded the AMD64 disk1 iso off of FreeBSD's main site, burned it 
> succesfully of my old machine, and tried to install... the CD Loader 
> worked, then the Bootloader, then I selected the default at the 
> prompt, and it started detecting hardware...
>
> Here's the problem... It freezes up after detecting the SATA drives 
> and it moves through the detections quickly so I can't read any of the 
> warnings... when it freezes scroll lock doesn't allow me to look back 
> and see if everything else is working. I had a i386 5.4 disk, and 
> tried it just to make sure there wasn't a burn issue, it sticks at 
> exactly the same spot.
>
> I'm fairly new to freebsd, and me and dad are both new to the 64bit 
> systems. So this maybe an id-ten-t user problem, but if someone has 
> some suggestions, I'd like to try them.
>
> Thanks for your patience.
>
Well, I've learned a little more, we found the knoppix cd and ran 
memtest. We found some memory errors and now were trying to figure out 
if it's the memory or the board's memory controller.

Sorry for the trouble.