BTX crashes on install (MSI Speedster / MS-9632 + T2050)

[Bjørn Eikeland]

The board is a MSI Speedster A4V, with a Mobile Core Duo T2050 CPU,
Intel 945GT+ICH7R chipset. I've tried most permutations of the BIOS
settings (ACPI, onboard lan/vga/sound, ACPI etc), I've even tried a
Core Solo T1300 and different sticks of memory. I've tried different
install CDs and different readers (ide, sata and usb) - and they all
work on other hardware. No luck with updating BIOS either.
All my googling indicate that both i945 and Core Duo should work-ish
with both freebsd and linux. Board 'works' under Windows, but not
Linux 2.4 or 2.6 either - is it possible to get this running somehow
or is my best bet to return the board?


Pointers will be appreciated!
Regards,
Bjørn

Screendump from a 6.2R install CD (is identical regardless of BIOS
settings and T2050 vs T1300 CPU):
CD Loader 1.2

Building the boot loader arguments
Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
Relocating the loader and the BTX
Starting the BTX loader

BTX loader 1.00  BTX version is 1.01
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int=0000000d  err=00000000  efl=00030206  eip=00004143
eax=00008001  ebx==0000000  ecx=00000001  edx=0000009f
esi=00000b89  edi=00000000  ebp=00000000  esp=000003d2
cs=f000  ds=3fca  es=4fac    fs=0000  gs=0000  ss=9dbc
cs:eip=2e 0f 01 16 58 43 0f 20-c0 0c 01 0f 22 c0 b8 30
       00 8e c0 0f 20 c0 24 fe-0f 22 c0 eb 00 66 58 c3
ss:esp=01 80 00 00 2c 40 00 00-00 00 89 0b 00 00 00 00
       00 00 f8 03 00 00 00 00-00 00 9f 00 00 00 01 00
BTX halted