On 08/13/2013 09:14 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
> 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
It does have a dual core processor. Do I need apic? What happens if I
continue to disable it?
Thanks
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