possible solution

[Matt Graham]

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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