I think you may have missed this previously. If you have a bp6 mobo,
check the bios version during boot and if the last two letters are not
nj or qq then it would be a good idea to update your bios. My nj bios
works perfectly. I have seen messages about the PW (?) bios having bugs.
So download the other bioses from abit and flash it.
Tom
Tim & Val Litwiller wrote:
>
> do you have a bp6 motherboard? I also am only running on one processor because of
> APIC problem when I run dual, Even with the NOAPIC in the append line in lilo I
> still can not seem to get the machine to run reliably with a smp kernel. I have
> tried making my own (mandrake sources) and mandrakes smp kernel. I guess I should
> get a generic kernel source and all the patches and try making from scratch. I
> know it worked better in 5.3 with a non-mandrake kernel but I haven't took the time
> to try again since then.
>
> John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > > Absolutly, I have a dual PIII 733 with a half gig of
> > > ram but you will have to recompile your kernal to make
> > > it work with dual processors
> > >
> > Well, did you have both processors in the system when you installed? If so it
> > SHOULD have auto-detected them and set up an SMP kernel. Unfortunately, my SMP
> > machine is only using one processor, 'cause it's got some IO-APIC problems. :-(
> > John
