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   From: "Dariusz Piatkowski"    
      
   On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:36:19 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...   
   >    
   > That's a load of old twaddle, ascribing to me things that I never wrote.   
      
   Look...I have no quarrel with you...honestly, and I already said this, I    
   seriously appreciate the input folks like yourself can provide to the   
   community.   
      
   My response was simply to address something you DID write in one of your posts    
   stating how things simply didn't work the way I was posting about    
   them...meanwhile, all I did was to try to re-create as closely as I could the    
   screens my BIOS showed...heck, I even found the best matching posts of such    
   screens from another MSI motherboard to illustrate what I was talking about   
   and    
   included the URLs in my post for reference. Meanwhile your response was to say    
   how MSI got it wrong and we were therefore all confused...LOL!   
      
   YES...I accept the fact that if MSI had the wrong description of a BIOS   
   function   
   then it certainly made me misunderstand the functionality...to correct this I    
   ask the OS community...I welcome all such feedback.   
      
      
      
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