Bob wrote:
> Craig Bradney wrote:
> 
>> For the Athlon, keep in touch with the nforce thread on here.. There are
>> patches due to timing issues with the nforce chipset.
>> For me, so far, just using this one works:
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bart/2.6.0-test11-bart1/broken-out/nforce2-apic.patch 
[SNIP]
> The patch works for a lot of people. I've seen those drive
> errors, irq7 disabled, spurious 8259a messages with a
> bios and acpi and apic and lapic and linux acpi handling
> conflict usually related to nforce2 and amd cpu's are
> usually involved.
> 
> My nforce2 amd system got to working with apic and lapic
> and acpi when I did a bios flash update.

I also tried flashing the BIOS, but that was a complete disaster.
I have a BioStar motherboard (M7NCD Pro), and when I flashed to the 1007
BIOS, I started getting segfaults during init, was unable to log in most
times, and the machine was generally unusable.

When I reflashed to the (old) 0630 BIOS, the above patch worked its
magic.

Incidentally, everyone should stay away from the 1007 BIOS for the
M7NCD Pro.

-Roberto