On 2013-08-12 21:40, Derek Trotter wrote:
> It's an HP pavilion, the model is p6-2003w
> It has an AAHD2-HY motherboard, AMD E2 3200 Processor
> You might remember over the last 8 or 10 months, I've had problems
> with this beast locking up at random. [...] 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.
The APIC (advanced programmable interrupt controller) is usually set to
"on" by default. Setting it to off is only supposed to be necessary on
older machines that have bad/buggy IO-APIC implementations. (I remember
trying various APIC settings on a motherboard in 2005; nothing helped
because the board was badly designed and built by the lowest bidder.)
That said, you really don't *need* an APIC on a single-CPU system.
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