Re: APIC error on CPUx

From: Junio C Hamano
Date: Mon May 22 2006 - 15:43:32 EST


Vladimir Dvorak <dvorakv@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>>>>>GNU/Linux
>>>>>
>>>>>Hardware:
>>>>>Intel SR1200
>>>>>
>>>>If it's an <=P3 class machine: most likely you have noise on the APIC bus.
>>>>
>>>>-Andi
>>>>
>>>Yes, you are right :
>>>
>>>cat /proc/cpuinfo
>>>...
>>>model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1133MHz
>>>...
>>>
>>>"Noise on APIC bus" means - " a lot of interrupts from devices" ?
>>
>>Usually a crappy/broken/misdesigned motherboard.
>>
>>-Andi

I say a similar error message upon boot:

APIC error on CPU0: 00(40)
APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)

I run i386 kernel (Debian/etch) on Turion64 MT-30; it is an
Averatec 2155 notebook (aka MSI 1013).

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