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.

Thanks

On 08/13/2013 09:06 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Solution I find is not to buy HP anything that isn't a server, and 
> then I'm usually biased against them inherently anyways.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 08/12/2013 09:40 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
>> You might remember over the last 8 or 10 months, I've had problems with
>> this beast locking up at random.  Over the weekend I was trying to
>> figure out how to set the console to a higher resolution so I could get
>> more on the screen.  I also stumbled across the settings for kernel
>> parameters.  In there was spalsh apic and lapic.  I looked up what these
>> did and 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.  Has anyone heard of these apic settings
>> causing problems if they are enabled?
>>
>> It has an AAHD2-HY motherboard*
>> *AMD E2 3200 Processor
>>
>> It's an HP pavilion
>> The model is p6-2003w*
>> *
>>
>> -- 
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>> if I’m not there, I carry on as usual."
>>
>> Patrick Moore
>>
>>
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