Brendan Miller wrote:
> > > 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 what's all the whoopla? I knew Linux did good, but I was afraid my
> BIOS clock would be dazed and confused. Is this not true?
>
BIOS are always dazed and confused. Have you looked at your new BIOS to see if
there were any new options other than the one you had mentioned? There may
have been other options over written in your BIOS, or reset that you may need
to change.
Whe I flashed my BIOS a whole lot of things had changed in it (I have a TYAN
Tomcat IV). I have a bunch of option sin my BIOS that are not in the manual
that came with the MB, along with things taht are in the manual that are not in
my BIOS.
>
> > > 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.
>
> Bummer. Am I better off reflashing back to 3.03? I really like(d) the
> extra APIC pins...
>
> > > 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.
>
I thought that 1.4 was a stricter version of 1.1, so it really doesn't matter.
I have the same issue. I had set mine to 1.4 and Linux used 1.1 then I read
somewhere that 1.4 was a stricter 1.1. I set it back to 1.1.
>
> That's what I thought--I figured the kernel would detect it though.
>
> Brendan
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