>This is a stupid story. And I’m embarrassed to tell you the truth. But
here it is.
Really an interesting story, Jake. Thanks for it!
But if your machine has a VIA chipset, or if it has a BIOS that we know
to be broken, then we fall back to the Win2K-style stacking behavior.
So, VIA is this bad. Will know this now.
The unfortunate truth is that you guys on this list mostly build your
own machines, rather than buying them from reputable manufacturers,
Yes, twice as cheap, and the same performance and reliability. All depends on parts vendor, mainly motherboard vendor.
As about the brand names like Dell or HP - they are known to be not 100% compatible with the usual PC, for instance, Dell required a
PCI card to be Dell-certified.
which means that you guys own the machines with broken BIOSes and VIA
chipsets.
Lots of motherboards on the market (and thus self-assembled machines) use Intel chipsets like i815 or such.
Is i815 bad?
One notable addendum is that any machine with an APIC interrupt
controller, and thus more than 16 IRQs, will spread interrupts out, even
in Win2K.
And what chipsets will provide APIC on non-SMP machine?
Max
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