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On Donnerstag, 7. August 2008, maxim wexler wrote: |
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> Hi group, |
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> Couple days ago my PC suddenly froze and I had to reset. So I checked this |
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> and that and found out eventually that only by booting with the noapic |
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> option could the system be accessed. Even the BootCD requires it. |
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> This is an Asrock mobo, about 3 mos old, with nForce3 chip-set. I'm using |
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> the 2.6.24 kernel with all apic options set 'y'. |
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> questions: |
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> This happen to anybody else. Is there a fix? Does it matter? In the little |
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> time I've spent don't notice much different. What would cause a PC to |
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> suddenly require the noapic option when it didn't need it before? |
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because it is dying and some signals that were barely in spec are now out of |
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spec? I would update to latetest VANILLA sources, flash latest bios and if the |
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problem is still there - go to lkml. It is either a kernel thingy or hardware. |