RE: The buggy APIC of the Abit BP6

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Keith Owens wrote:

> You do not have the data required to (a) detect the problem and (b)
> recover even if you could detect the problem.

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> The reliability of the hardware is next to null. You are not able to
> recover from that.

Okay, you guys convinced me that some hardware can suck *really* bad. I
think I'm just going to stop my effort on this, stay with Raphael
Manfredi's hack to avoid most of the hangs on my BP6 for now, and get a
new board ASAP.

Thanks for all the help,
- Robbert Kouprie

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