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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common/trouble.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common/trouble.sgml
index 0b97fbd..be7b97d 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common/trouble.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common/trouble.sgml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
<sect2>
<title>Common Installation Problems for &arch.print; Architecture Users</title>
- <qandaset arch="i386">
+ <qandaset arch="i386,amd64">
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>My system hangs while probing hardware during boot, or it
@@ -56,6 +56,21 @@
boot loader can be found in the FreeBSD Handbook.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
+ <qandaentry arch="amd64">
+ <question>
+ <para>My system uses the nVidia nForce3 Pro-150 chipset and I get hangs
+ at the end of boot or suddenly starts losing interrupts.</para>
+ </question>
+ <answer>
+ <para>There are problems with the apic on this chipset and/or the
+ bios on every machine that we had seen at the time of release.
+ While disabling ACPI as above will work, a less drastic option may
+ be to set the <quote>hint.apic.0.disabled</quote> hint instead.
+ If you have the option in the bios, try disabling the APIC support.
+ Unfortunately some machines lack this option.
+ </para>
+ </answer>
+ </qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>My legacy ISA device used to be recognized in previous versions
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