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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