Re: apic errors and looping with 2.4, none with 2.2 (supermicro/serverworksLE chipset)

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Chris Stromsoe wrote:

> When there are APIC errors logged, is it generally a hardware issue?  I

 Yep.

> have a few other boxes that log errors unless they're booted with noapic
> (but with noapic, they run fine).  Is the power supply generally the first
> thing to check when trying to track down the source of an APIC related

 Experience shows that's a good thing for a start.  Of course the reason
may actually be a bad motherboard design and replacing the power supply
wouldn't help then.

> hardware problem?  Pointers to URLs or other forms of documentation
> appreciated.

 Well, just mailing list archives, unless, of course, you are interested
in the exact details of APIC operation.  In that case,
http://developer.intel.com/ would be the right place to look for
documentation.

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