Known problems

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If any of those below help you, please do not forget to inform about this or add your hardware to the list below.

[edit] NMI interrupts

Some hardware doesn't handle NMI interrupts correctly, and a machine oopses on boot.

Solution: try boot it with nmi_watchdog=0

At least the following hardware is known to be faulty/have problems with it:

• HP DL140G3 (OpenVZ Bug #514)
• HP DL180G6

[edit] APIC problems

Some nvidia chipsets are known to have buggy APIC. In this case user can experience different strange problems like crashes/hangs on boot, or peripheral device problems (like non-working ethernet adapter)

Solution: try boot your kernel with 'noapic' option.

At least the following hardware is known to be faulty/have problems with it:

• Tyan S5372 motherboard and e1000 adapters (Forum thread #2213)