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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