> compliance. Now, typically, the motherboard manufacturers do not say
> what exactly is in the new BIOS to make the Y2K fix, but they say your
> system will be compliant if you do the flash.
It does the century rollover. Linux does this as well so you don't have
to panic about it.
> So, does anybody have an idea? Does anyone have this motherboard
> and BIOS version with relevant experience? Certainly, the BIOS
> flash did not "unconnect" the IO-APIC pins as the boot log says!
That looks like the BIOS may have lost a few nice features.
> Also, FWIW, there's a new setting in the CMOS setup called "MP Version"
> which is settable to 1.1 or 1.4. It was on 1.1, I switched it to 1.4,
> but the Linux kernel boot always says:
>
> Jun 12 13:15:48 xenon kernel: Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1
We don't actually care bout the 1.4 extras that much.
Alan
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