possible solution

[Michael Butash]

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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