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[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Gregory Boyce wrote:

> > Never heard those terms before.  The limited STFW I could do at work
> > indicates that those terms are associated with multiprocessor boxen, which
> > mine isn't.
> 
> APIC = Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller.  There are local apics 
> and IO-apics, but I'm not sure what the difference is.  Basically the APIC 
> handles interrupts for the system taking some load off of the CPU.
> 
> IO-APICs are required for SMP, but can also be used in single processor 
> systems.  There are apparently a wide variety of problems that can be 
> resolved by either enabling or disabling the APIC due to problems with 
> various motherboards.
> 

Then again, maybe I *won't* try it.
http://www.soohrt.org/stuff/linux/hardware/asus-a7v8x-mx.html

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