-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:34:43 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:49:41PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > > > Good thought, but "acpi=off" did not make any (noticeable) > > difference. It still hung during boot with an unexpected irq trap. > > some googling turned up this: > > http://www.mepis.org/node/10972 > > which mentions turning off a bunch of crap in the BIOS (onboard modem > etc). I suspect that's where you need to go. Also pulling pci bus > cards off the machine and booting, then putting in one at a time to > see if you can find the problem. Thanks for the tip. I turned off everything the BIOS will let me turn off... USB, lan, wifi, modem, etc. and it still had the irq trap during boot. There are not really any "settings" it will let me tweak, as far as bus speeds or anything other than disabling peripherals, since this is a laptop. Anyone else have any suggestions? Puzzled and confused, Jacob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGewY8kpJ43hY3cTURAsONAJ9MDnovI7s8o/qeAf76haHwwOmlxACgwTAe 9ge4ZviFUcPdyPfPWgeZGaI= =v0Qb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----