Re: "Latitude with broken BIOS" ?

Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:41:38 +0000

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:28:49AM -0800, Alessandro Suardi wrote:

> > > "Dell Latitude with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC."
> > Lots of Dell laptops (like other vendors) crash instantly when trying to
> > enable the APIC.
> Well my Dells power off on rebooting from 2.5... bug 119 or 134 in
> http://bugme.osdl.org, no need to resort to messing with the APIC ;(

That one IMO looks like an ACPI problem (Note ACPI != APIC)

Dave

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