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   Message 407 of 3,371   
   Mr. G to All   
   Re: Upgrade to 6 core CPU...now desktop    
   10 Jan 12 16:31:26   
   
   .os.os2.misc:3804   
   From: "Mr. G"    
      
   On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:01:30 UTC, "Dariusz Piatkowski"    
    wrote:   
      
   > Now, here is something strange. After trying repeatedly, playing around with   
   the   
   > device drivers, removing some, putting some back after (choices being:   
   UniAudio,   
   > APM, Unicode, UDF, etc) I finally managed to boot to Desktop with 6 cores    
   > recognized.   
   >    
   > This is with "PSD=OS2APIC.PSD /P=6 /APIC" in CONFIG.SYS and the BIOS set to    
   > support MPS 1.4 version (which was my previous setting, working OK with the   
   4    
   > core CPU).   
   >    
   > The strange part is: the boot still hung, however, hitting the combination   
   of    
   > CTRL-ESC, ALT-ESC, and ALT-TAB somehow brought up the "Window List" window,    
   > which was blank, however at this point in time the boot progresses, and soon    
   > enough, I had a working machine.   
   >    
   My vote goes to either Uniaud or USB   
      
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