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From: "Thomas Steinbrecher" <thomas.steinbrecher@physchem.uni-freiburg.de>
Subject: Re: Motherboard A7M2666-D
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 09:30:17 +0100
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To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Greetings,

we encountered the same problems, also with an A7M266.

> So i download from the asus website the october bios
> release 1009.

We found that it boots fine from bios revision 1006 on.

> suggested trying
> to boot SMP with the "noapic" option, just to see if the
> problem was more
> easily solved.

No, we tried that, wouldn't work. I think bios upgrade (or
exchanging the board for a newer one, which is what we did)
is neccesary.

Regards,

Thomas