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   Dariusz Piatkowski to All   
   Re: Upgrade to 6 core CPU...now desktop    
   11 Jan 12 04:24:47   
   
   791473448d13d7f76330.newsdawg.com   
   s2.setup.misc:657   
   From: "Dariusz Piatkowski"    
      
   On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:31:26 UTC, "Mr. G"  wrote:   
      
   > 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   
      
   Tried both, separately AND together...no luck...at least not visible   
   luck...the    
   boot still gets stuck when the STARTUP.CMD VIO window pops-up, no text is    
   displayed in it however...   
      
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