buggy ACPI on board versus HW failure Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-07 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
To: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64) Note that this may well be hardware related: without acpi you are only using one CPU, etc, so if one of the others is bad it will only fail when you have ACPI enabled -- even if ACPI itself

Re: buggy ACPI on board versus HW failure Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
, September 05, 2007 1:57 AM To: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64) Note that this may well be hardware related: without acpi you are only using one CPU, etc, so if one of the others is bad it will only fail when you have ACPI enabled -- even

Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
: Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64) Note that this may well be hardware related: without acpi you are only using one CPU, etc, so if one of the others is bad it will only fail when you have ACPI enabled -- even if ACPI itself is not to blame. Easily testable by running that Other Operating

Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-06 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 5, 2007, at 3:07 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Kennaway Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:57 AM To: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64

RE: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 10:20 PM To: User Questions Subject: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64) Hi I have a 6.2R system (amd64) with the latest patch level

Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Hi I have a 6.2R system (amd64) with the latest patch level. The motherboard is a Tyan S5197 i3110 based board with a Core 2 Quad 2.4 ghz processor. There is 4GB of memory and an Areca ARC-1231ML raid card. The problem is that I have to boot without ACPI

RE: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Kennaway Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:57 AM To: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: no SMP without ACPI? (amd64) Note that this may well be hardware related

no SMP without ACPI? (amd64)

2007-09-04 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Hi I have a 6.2R system (amd64) with the latest patch level. The motherboard is a Tyan S5197 i3110 based board with a Core 2 Quad 2.4 ghz processor. There is 4GB of memory and an Areca ARC-1231ML raid card. The problem is that I have to boot without ACPI or the system will randomly