On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:53:46PM +0200, Remi Turk wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:18:07PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Thanks. UP-APIC is a real candidate for this case. > > You're correct. Disabling it stops the hard-locks. > (Although /usr/bin/apm now says my kernel doesn't > support APM) > > And now my system is going down for some hours, > before my dad pulls the plug :-( I also tried CONFIG_SMP=y and CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y + CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=n, but that didn't make any difference. Even nmi_watchdog doesn't work anymore. I thought my dmesg might be useful so I attached it. -- Linux 2.4.5-ac9 #3 Wed Jun 6 11:15:40 CEST 2001