Im trying to install r5 on my very new machine :

gigabyte board, amd athalonxp 1500+
512 ram , geforce 2mx 64mb, creative sb and networkcard onboard. ess es56t-pi modem

whenever it loads the bootloader, the cute purple screen appears and after about 5 secons of that blinkin rect in the topleft corner it *Resets* my machine for no reason.

also installed redhat and winxp (not that it relevant - i also tried it when the hd was blank..)

also i tried installing PE on both Linux AND winXP - nothing work - same exact problem.

safe mode / all the disables/enables in the SpaceBar failsafe list - (tried it with them all .. )

nothing works.

a DEMO version of R4 (on bootable CD) works fine (thought grayscale). and i have tried to change my geforce with a voodoo3 and remove my modem (the voodoo works fine with r5 on my previous machine amdk62.)

i guess this has something to do with my board. please help.

i can also be reached on icq : 20720206
(if you can help please try to msg me on icq)

The first problem is your Athlon XP. There are some answers further down in this forum.
Either you need a patched kernel or you have to disable the SSE instructions in the BIOS.

The next problem will be your RAM since BeOS will try to create a swapfile bigger than the partition image, which doesn't really work.
The best solution would be to create a BeOS CD and install BeOS to its own partition, unless you don't want to take out half of your RAM.