On Donnerstag, 7. August 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Couple days ago my PC suddenly froze and I had to reset. So I checked this > and that and found out eventually that only by booting with the noapic > option could the system be accessed. Even the BootCD requires it. > > This is an Asrock mobo, about 3 mos old, with nForce3 chip-set. I'm using > the 2.6.24 kernel with all apic options set 'y'. > > > questions: > This happen to anybody else. Is there a fix? Does it matter? In the little > time I've spent don't notice much different. What would cause a PC to > suddenly require the noapic option when it didn't need it before?
because it is dying and some signals that were barely in spec are now out of spec? I would update to latetest VANILLA sources, flash latest bios and if the problem is still there - go to lkml. It is either a kernel thingy or hardware.
