[PLUG] Feisty freeze-ups solved

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Tue May 29 17:11:18 UTC 2007


On 5/28/07, Bruce KIlpatrick <bakil_win at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I recently posted about Feisty-freezeups on my Toshiba laptop.  Drew
> thought the problem sounded very like one he had with the Wifi drivers
> for an Atheros card he had.
>
> The problem turned out to be one related to the boot up error I was
> getting and couldn't remember when I posted to the list.  The error was
> *"MP*-*BIOS bug*: *8254* timer not connected to IO-APIC".
>
> Adding noapic to the boot options took care of the problem.  I should
> have noted the obvious error before I jumped to conclusions.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Bruce


Glad to hear you got it fixed up Bruce!

Drew-



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