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Re: Recommend a Kernel
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:30:56PM +0200, Doc wrote:
> Il Fri, 28 Sep 2001 02:05:04 +0200, il tuo gatto camminando sulla tastiera ha scritto:
> >> Same sort of problems with 2.2 SMP.
> >
> >That's strange. This starts to smell like hardware problems.
> >
>
> yep.
> finally i must resign...
> after 5 days of battle against that shitty box, i've tried to install
> (sic) windows 2k. installation crashes (i know that it seems to be
> normal... but not in my case)
> i don't know why (i've also tried moving around devices to avoid
> interrupt shares) but SMP does not work.
- Disable MP 1.4 support in BIOS and go for MP 1.1 support (if your
BIOS allows it).
- Try to boot with "noapic" option.
- Try a BIOS upgrade.
If all else fails, introduce the motherboard to a hammer.
Erik
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