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From: "Dariusz Piatkowski"
Hi Lars!
Well, some good news...and some rather...umm...very bad news....
I had previously tried some of your suggestions in the past as I was trying to
deal with this pesky occasional soft-hang on my machine. It would only happen
in
a certain situation...eventually, I was unable to resolve it.
Anyways, I was thrilled to try these latest combinations you posted, and one
of
them did hold promise. The "PSD=OS2APIC.PSD /P=6 /PREC=LID" actually brought
me
to a fully populated DESKTOP, I was able to run things fine, basically use my
apps. The only problem: I could not do this consistently...meaning, on one
boot
things would go OK, still a delay in the boot, but hitting a few CTRL-ESC
sequences allowed the boot to progress.
As it happened I somehow wanted to see if overclocking the hardware would help
out with the issue I was seeing. Not really knowing what was causing the
problems I was seeing I had nothing else to try.
Subsequently I cranked up the CPU vcore, upped the CPU-NB bridge frequency
along
with the HTT, also tossed some increased voltage for a good meas
re...LOL...ouch
indeed. I knew what I was doing was risky, but I've toyed with PC hardware in
the past and understood the risks.
Well....drummroll please....1st, it worked great, the machine booted w/o any
hangs/delays...chugged along rather nicely for about 5-10 mins..
then....THINGS
WENT DARK!!!
1st time ever, I had actually fried something...I scrambled a bit, found a new
replacement motherboard as the one I was using wouldn't even stay powered up
(and I tried everything I could think of to clear the CMOS, heck, I even tried
my 'spare' 2core and 4core CPUs...). Bottom line, my 6-core SMP
xperimentation
is over for the time being.
The replacement board (still MSI as the previous one was pretty well behaved
in
OS/2) doesn't quite work that great. Being in a rush I had picked up what was
available at the store, ended up with 880G-E45 (previous had 790X-G45). The
new
board has built-in video, only 1 PS2 connector, a ton of built-in stuff (more
USB controllers too), and somewhat different BIOS. Needless to say, attempting
to boot OS2 in the 6-core configuration produces a very HARD hang on the
RESOURCE.SYS driver.
I have:
5-21-02 3:36p 55402 0 RESOURCE.SYS
Signature: @#IBM:10.070#@ Resource Management Driver
Vendor: IBM
Revision: 10.70
File Version: 10.70
Description: Resource Management Driver
...but what it's actually getting stuck on, I have absolutely no idea.
The old board would chug along happily past the RESOURCE.SYS driver and would
only get stuck upon the Desktop load.
Good news is: the latest USB drivers you released (v 179) appear to work very
well. No TRAPs or hangs on boot...I'm using the FULL driver set here,
including
your version of USBD.SYS. Unfortunately I can no longer test the bug-fix you
provided on my old board.
Thanks for all the suggestions, much appreciated. Now I need to figure out why
during boot I am getting 'out of memory' complaints...I suspect all the extra
built-in stuff is just getting in the way.
-Dariusz
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:38:41 UTC, "Lars Erdmann" wrote:
> try these:
>
> PSD=OS2APIC.PSD /P=6 /PREC=ILD
> PSD=OS2APIC.PSD /P=6 /PREC=LID
> PSD=OS2APIC.PSD /P=6 /PREC=DLI /NMI=LINT1 /PIC=LINT0
> PSD=OS2APIC.PSD /P=6 /PREC=DLI /NMI=LINT0 /PIC=LINT1
>
> Lars
>
> "Dariusz Piatkowski" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:Qg5I6Bo2seGy-pn2-98SSYRk4T3pT@neurobox...
> > 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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