FC3 - 64 bit on Gigabyte GA-K8NPRO

[Brian Walter]

Misery loves company.  At least it just not me.  I'm putting the 32 bit back on, guess I'll wait for the next version!

Thanks!


> On 4/28/05, Brian Walter <amatin at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I've been trying to install fc3 - 64 bit on a Gigabyte GA-K8NPRO motherboard, 
> with athlon 64 3000.  It is, at best, not good.  I keep gettin hangs at 
> different places in the boot process.
> > 
> > I was just wondering if anyone else on the list has installed 64 bit on with 
> this motherboard?  I've had the 32 bit version running on it with no problem.
> > 
> > For what's it worth, here's the specs:
> > 
> > Chipset
> > 
> >    1. NVIDIA nForce3 150 Platform Processor
> >    2. Super I/O: ITE IT8712F chip
> >    3. Integrated Peripherials
> >          1. Silicon Image sil3512 controller
> >          2. GigaRAID ATA 133 RAID controller
> >          3. T.I. IEEE1394 controller
> >          4. Realtek 8110S Gigabit Ethernet controller
> >          5. Realtek ALC658 Audio AC'97 Codec
> > 
> > Memory
> > 
> >    1. Type: DDR400/ 333/ 266- 184pin
> > 
> > Internal I/O Connectors
> > 
> >    1. 2 x Serial ATA connector
> >    2. 4 x UDMA ATA 133/100/66 Bus Master IDE connectors
> >    3. 1 x FDD connector
> >    4. 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 connectors (supports 4 ports)
> >    5. 2 x IEEE 1394 connectors (supports 3 ports)
> >    6. S/P DIF input/output pin header
> >    7. 3 x cooling fan pin headers
> >    8. CD/AUX in
> >    9. 1 x Game/Midi connector
> > 
> > Expansion Slots
> > 
> >    1. 1 x AGP slot (8x/4x-AGP 3.0 compliant), supports 1.5v display card only.
> >    2. 5 x PCI slots (PCI 2.3 compliant)
> > 
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> 
> I have the same setup and I am not able to get it to install.  I was
> able to get FC4T1 and FC4T2 to work but FC3 64 bit never worked.  I
> may have to wait for FC4 to come out :o
> -- 
> CPU:  AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor Model Number  3000+  1.8GHz  512KB  939-pin
> Motherboard:  GA-K8NXP-SLI nForce4 SLI chipset
> Memory: (2 total 2 GB) Kingston 1GB Kit (PC3200 / 400MHZ CL3A) DDR Memory
> Video Card:  eVGA GeForce 6600 / 256MB DDR / PCI Express / VGA / Video Card
> Sound:  Onboard
> HDD:  2 IBM 120GB ( 1 for WinXP 64 bit & 1 for FC4T2)
> Monitor: DCL / DCL9A / 19-Inch / SXGA / 700:1 / Black / 16ms / LCD
> Monitor w/ Speakers
> 
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