Re: nforce2 random lockups - still no solution ?

[Samuel Kvasnica]

> > 
> > What I'd like to know is whether this bug is AMD processor or chipset 
> > related.
>
> Chipset and/or BIOS. AMD processors are known to work in other mobos.
>
> You may try disabling just I/O-APIC or ACPI.
>  
No, only disabling local apic really helps. On both ASUS and MSI nforce2 
motherboards. I can even enable apic and acpi with disabled local apic 
(anyway with XT-PIC only) and have no troubles. The lockups seem to 
appear when drivers heavily employing DMA are used (as udma5 hdd or 
framegrabber).

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