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On Wed, 03 May 2000 00:03:40 +0100, {R} Richard Ashton
<{R}@soggy.semolina.org> wrote:

>On Tue, 2 May 2000 21:41:30 +0100, Tony Wright <adw@saska.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>}4.You may want to do some research into APIC 1.1/1.4 to get a line on
>}when to enable the APIC 1.4 setting in BIOS. AIUI, APIC 1.1 assigns IRQs
>}in the conventional 0-15 manner, APIC 1.4 doesn't do it this way, but is
>}apparently much better, though I don't fully know why. All the boxes
>}I've done ended up APIC 1.4 with weird IRQs but they work well, though
>}none of them had the setting in BIOS that the BP6 has. If you learn
>}anything useful about 1.4 please let me know.
>
>I don't understand this, I thought APIC was some sort of customised chip.



> I need to upgrade the BH6 to BP6 before installing this 2K Pro shit I have
> here. 

I think Tony is confusing ACPI with MPS 1.1/1.4.

If you're going to put Win2K onto a BP6, make sure you flash the bios
with the latest qq beta available from:

ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/beta/bp6/bios/BP6_QQ.ZIP dated 15/03/2000
(there is a later 'release' version of the bios but this is causing
some problems under Win2k).

This version of the bios enables ACPI (Advanced Configuration and
Power Interface) and MPS (multi-processor specification) 1.4 to work
correctly under Win2K.

There is a lot of discussion about this on the www.bp6.com
messageboard. I also found a simple explanation of MPS 1.1/1.4 at
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/r440lx/mps.htm
and some links on ACPI at http://www.teleport.com/~acpi/

My dual 366 Celeron @ 550MHz BP6 is working 'rock solid' under Win2K
Pro, but I have a SCSI setup and haven't attempted to use the on-board
HPT UDMA 66 controller, which seems to cause a lot of grief. 

-- 
Killian