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<font face="Comic Sans MS">Thanks for your input. Sound like the
next time I buy a computer I'll drive down to Atlanta and see what
Frys has, or maybe buy all the parts and build my own.<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/13/2013 09:06 AM, Michael Butash
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:520A5985.6020007@butash.net" type="cite">I've
hit a few systems over time, not in many years, but leave it to HP
to put the buggiest bios possible into their hardware. I've had
to do apic and acpi flags on a few systems to even boot properly,
usually either old smp intel boards or amd's.
<br>
<br>
Usually indicative of buggy bios or bridge implementations. I
have a hp laptop that has the quirkiest power handling and buggy
bios - great since it was one of their most expensive "enterprise"
units, and their support told linux users to naff off for
expecting a fix. Sometimes freezes on boot, sometimes won't shut
down right, sometimes loses a hard drive, just about anything
related to acpi/bios and it's wonky. Windoze works just fine - go
figure, but they work around crap hardware with drivers.
<br>
<br>
Solution I find is not to buy HP anything that isn't a server, and
then I'm usually biased against them inherently anyways.
<br>
<br>
-mb
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On 08/12/2013 09:40 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">You might remember over the last 8 or 10
months, I've had problems with
<br>
this beast locking up at random. Over the weekend I was trying
to
<br>
figure out how to set the console to a higher resolution so I
could get
<br>
more on the screen. I also stumbled across the settings for
kernel
<br>
parameters. In there was spalsh apic and lapic. I looked up
what these
<br>
did and decided to try changing them to noapic and nolapic.
Then I
<br>
rebooted. The console resolution was fixed and for 3 days now,
the
<br>
machine hasn't locked up. Has anyone heard of these apic
settings
<br>
causing problems if they are enabled?
<br>
<br>
It has an AAHD2-HY motherboard*
<br>
*AMD E2 3200 Processor
<br>
<br>
It's an HP pavilion
<br>
The model is p6-2003w*
<br>
*
<br>
<br>
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