possible solution

[Derek Trotter]

On 08/13/2013 09:14 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
> On 2013-08-12 21:40, Derek Trotter wrote:
>>  It's an HP pavilion, the model is p6-2003w
>>  It has an AAHD2-HY motherboard,  AMD E2 3200 Processor
>> You might remember over the last 8 or 10 months, I've had problems
>> with this beast locking up at random. [...] decided to try changing
>> them to noapic and nolapic.  Then I rebooted.  The console
>> resolution was fixed and for 3 days now, the machine hasn't locked
>> up.
>
> The APIC (advanced programmable interrupt controller) is usually set 
> to "on" by default.  Setting it to off is only supposed to be 
> necessary on older machines that have bad/buggy IO-APIC 
> implementations.  (I remember trying various APIC settings on a 
> motherboard in 2005; nothing helped because the board was badly 
> designed and built by the lowest bidder.)  That said, you really don't 
> *need* an APIC on a single-CPU system
It does have a dual core processor.  Do I need apic?  What happens if I 
continue to disable it?

Thanks

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