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   From: "Dariusz Piatkowski"    
      
   Just a brief update regarding Trevor's suggestion...tried it...no    
   change...repeated re-boots and seeing the same hang.   
      
      
   On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:33:22 UTC, "Dariusz Piatkowski"    
    wrote:   
      
   > Hi Trevor!   
   >    
   > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:36:30 UTC, "Trevor Hemsley"    
   >  wrote:   
   >    
   > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:01:30 UTC in comp.os.os2.setup.misc, "Dariusz   
   Piatkowski"   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >    
   > > > 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).   
   > >    
   > > /APIC never got much beyond the beta stage so you might try it without.   
   > >    
   > > Also, I have got past many issues like you describe by using SET    
   > > RESTARTOBJECTS=NO in config.sys   
   >    
   >    
   > Yup, as Lars suggested, I tried dropping the /APIC option, however that did   
   not    
   > appear to improve teh situation.   
   >    
   > Now, regarding the follow-up suggestion of yours, I attempted the following    
   > (based on some previous Intenet searches):   
   >    
   > SET RUNWORKPLACE=G:\OS2\CMD.EXE   
   > SET RESTARTOBJECTS=NO   
   > SET SHELLEXCEPTIONHANDLER=OFF   
   > SET SHAPIEXCEPTIONHANDLER=OFF   
   >    
   > ...the result was a hard-lock however...what I haven't tried was leaving the   
   full   
   > CONFIG.SYS setup as-is in my 4-core configuration and attemptign the SET    
   > RESTARTOBJECTS=NO on it's own.    
   >    
   > I will try that tomorrow and will follow-up with my results.   
   >    
   > So far, strangely enough (to me anyways) it doesn't appear like I'm going to    
   > have much luck moving to the 6-core configuration.    
   >    
   > I wish that the eCS ACPI solution could be tried out on some type of a trial    
   > basis...because if it works I would be happy to pay the price and move along   
   to    
   > more happy times...LOL...yes, but I'm just getting 'greedy' here trying to   
   get    
   > the full 6 cores running...   
      
      
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