FC3 - 64 bit on Gigabyte GA-K8NPRO

[Richard Ramson]

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
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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