Re: nforce2 random lockups - still no solution ?

Samuel Kvasnica
2003-10-23T11:04:26Z

> >
> > 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).