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   From: "Dariusz Piatkowski"    
      
   On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:31:08 UTC, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
    wrote:   
      
   > > It's unfortunate that these two acronyms are so easily confused.   
   >    
   > Especially when, as it seems here, conversation is about to turn to the    
   > way that Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controllers are dealt with in    
   > the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface.  (-:   
      
   Alright now...LOL, my MSI BIOS does what it does...you may have whatever ideas    
   you have on how things should work...and I don't even necessairly disagree   
   with    
   you, however, it is what it is.   
      
   In my MSI mb BIOS, as I previously described, the IOAPIC option ONLY shows up   
   in   
   the menu when the ACPI mode is enabled. End of story.   
      
   C'mon man...accept that a vendor has chosen to implement something in a    
   particular way and deal with it...don't make that fact an overarching   
   difficulty   
   for our conversation here. For the most part anyways you are merely pointing   
   out   
   how you think BIOS settings should be, but I do not see any real examples you    
   are using to illustrate to us why and how it impacts OS2...   
      
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