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   Lars Erdmann to All   
   Re: Upgrade to 6 core CPU...now desktop    
   10 Jan 12 19:41:05   
   
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   .os.os2.misc:3805   
   From: "Lars Erdmann"    
      
   Yes very well possible. I just found some bug in USBOHCD.SYS that most    
   likely does bad things to your system.   
   It would effectively program the wrong physical address into a register    
   (pointing to nowhere land) and the risk that the USB DMA engine would    
   subsequently write to that address before it is finally set to the correct    
   value.   
   No memory protection with DMA, therefore no traps and orderly machine stop    
   ...   
   I hope to get out a new set of drivers in about 2 weeks.   
      
   On the other hand: I would try to run OS2APIC.PSD without the /APIC    
   parameter. That is equivalent to   
   ACPI.PSD /VW (in short: you run your system in "virtual wire" mode).   
   Some MP table are so grossly broken that it's worth giving it a try. There    
   are other parameters to OS2APIC.PSD to also try out.   
      
   Lars   
      
      
   "Mr. G"  schrieb im Newsbeitrag    
   news:G8df4sdtcWG8-pn2-gMstiV3rddlI@localhost...   
   > 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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