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Skriven 2012-01-10 05:01:30 av Dariusz Piatkowski
Ärende: Re: Upgrade to 6 core CPU...now desktop hangs?
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From: "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net>

Hi Lars!

On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 05:57:25 UTC, "Lars Erdmann" <lars.erdmann@arcor.de> wrote:

> Does this thing have an NVidia chipset ?
> 
> Lars


Nope...I am using the MSI 790X-G45 motherboard 
(http://www.msi.com/product/mb/790X-G45.html), this has:

- AMD 790X and SB710 Chipset 

Now, here is something strange. After trying repeatedly, playing around with
the
device drivers, removing some, putting some back after (choices being:
UniAudio,
APM, Unicode, UDF, etc) I finally managed to boot to Desktop with 6 cores 
recognized.

This is with "PSD=OS2APIC.PSD /P=6 /APIC" in CONFIG.SYS and the BIOS set to 
support MPS 1.4 version (which was my previous setting, working OK with the 4 
core CPU).

The strange part is: the boot still hung, however, hitting the combination of 
CTRL-ESC, ALT-ESC, and ALT-TAB somehow brought up the "Window List" window, 
which was blank, however at this point in time the boot progresses, and soon 
enough, I had a working machine.

The remaining issue is that I actually have a continuing CPU spike taking
place,
at any point in time 1 of the cores (not the same one continuoulsy, but various

cores) is usually at about 50% load...not sure why...but the behaviour is
almost
exact to the previous 'spiking' stuff I was seeing with Firefox usage when 
high-res timer was turned ON. Eventually, through some other tests I was able
to
narrow this down to what I believe is the cause => libc06b4.dll (of course,
just
a suspicion, but removing that DLL caused the spikes to go away). I haven't 
tried this on my 6 core configuration yet given that the actual Desktop boot
has
been very elusive so far, with success occuring only 3 times tonight.

I am now trying to figure out how the heck to trap/log the delay I am seeing 
while executing the normal boot process. Any hints? Haven't tried the FULL 
Hardware Detection yet...wanted to narrow this down further first...


> 
> "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
> news:Qg5I6Bo2seGy-pn2-Kd0UsLfoqjk4@neurobox...
> > Folks!
> >
> > I was running the AMD Phenom II X4-965 CPU here for about a 
> > year...basically
> > learning about SMP enabling my machine, etc, etc.
> >
> > I figured with today's hardware and our beloved OS2 configuration the way 
> > it is,
> > I won't be doing any further major upgrades for some time, and since I 
> > have a
> > working combo I'd just upgrade for a slightly better CPU, so I went to the
> > Phenom II X6 1100T, which is really the end of the road for the AM2+/AM3 
> > combos.
> >
> > So...I figured: OK, add 2 more CPUs to my CONFIG.SYS...right?
> >
> > PSD=OS2APIC.PSD /P=6 /APIC
> >
> > Well...not so fast...it appears I am running out of memory somewhere...the 
> > real
> > problem is getting stuck on the blue 'PMSHELL' window when my 
> > 'startup.cmd' VIO
> > window pops up, and nothing, I mean nothing get's executed. The VIO window 
> > just
> > sits there...keyboard still seems active, the num-lock flickers, but the 
> > VIO
> > window or the PMSHELL do not accept any inputs.
> >
> > Throttling this back to a 4 core configuration brings the system back to 
> > life on
> > this X6 Phenom...
> >
> > Sooo....the big question is: what am I missing here? Any ideas? Do I need 
> > to do
> > a full 'hardware detection' boot next?
> >
> > Thanks! 
> 


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