cannot install fc7, fc6, or fc5 on new machine

[Kam Leo]

On 7/23/07, Vicki and Dave Stevenson <vicndave at pacbell.net> wrote:
> Unfortunately I didn't have much chance to work on this over the
> weekend, but it was so encouraging to hear from all of you. Thanks
> Chris, Andy, Stan, Jim and Willem for your suggestions.
>
> I managed to update the BIOS (which was several revs old - ver 0502 to
> ver 1001), and that seemed to be enough to get me past the sticking point:
>        running /sbin/loader
>
> and the installation is proceeding. How lovely it feels to be asked what
> language I speak!
>
> I have some questions about some bios settings:
>
> 1) CPU Frequency
> The default value is 200MHz, and the max is 400MHz. The BIOS utility
> allows any integral value between those points [200, 201, ... 400]. If I
> set to 400MHz, is that what is referred to as overclocking?
>

Yes.

> Are there risks associated with this?
>

Yes. It depends on the amount of overclocking. A few percent over the
default may not harm your system. Too aggressive overclocking and  you
will get ystem instability, lockup, and/or processor failure.

>
> 2) Onboard SATA Type
> Default value is 'IDE Controller', other options are 'AHCI Controller'
> and 'RAID Controller'. I know I don't want RAID (at least not at this
> time). Wikipedia says that all but the newest operating systems can have
> some trouble with AHCI. Since I want to run VMWare (or something
> similar) on this box to work on various platforms (XP, vista, linux, 32
> and 64-bit versions where possible), I wonder if I should just stick
> with the IDE setting?
>
> Or maybe I should try AHCI, and revert to IDE later if I run into trouble?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
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