cannot install fc7, fc6, or fc5 on new machine

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 18:27 -0700, Vicki and Dave Stevenson 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?
> 
> Are there risks associated with this?
> 
I have never seen a BIOS with this feature, but overclocking has dangers
such as burning up your cpu. Have you no idea what the cpu clocking
speed is supposed to be? 
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