Ohh! Apic and lapic! I had apic keep my computer from booting (or it died VERY soon after booting, I forget which).
So, yes, those can REALLY mess you up if your computer is sensitive to it.
(Note to self – next time someone is having trouble with lockups, ask them about apic and lapic!)
Gag – this is going to come from my NEW email address, which is still the same computer, company, and all that, but it’s a different domain now. So it won’t get posted.
Oh, well. Time to go fix my email address here on plug…
Rusty
From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Derek Trotter
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 9:40 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: possible solution
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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