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Re: 5.0beta won't boot on a Dell Dimension 8400



On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:07:25AM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > cr4=690
> > 
> > Btw -- both machines have the same BIOS version, A03 from 2004.  A09 is
> > available; it's about two years newer.  I wonder if installing it would
> > make life better or worse...
> 
> SSE is enabled. If it were my machine the next thing I would try updating
> the BIOS and then perhaps compare output of DEBUG_MEMLOAD between the
> machines, and maybe disable load of some segments.

Actually I'd look at DEBUG_MEMLOAD before upgrading BIOS, to try to see
what's the difference between the working and non-working case.
And also double-check BIOS options, of couse.

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