On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:46:30 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > Several years ago a friend, who owns his own business, gave me one of > his old servers because he knows that computers are my hobby. It's been > sitting around my basement since then, but it has finally worked its way > to the top of my "to do" list. I just fired it up for the first time > yesterday. Basically, I am trying to determine if this is a 64-bit- > capable machine or not, and I can't tell. Here's what the BIOS setup > program reports for the CPU: > > Boot Strap Processor > Installed Speed: 2.40 GHz > Socket Name: BSP > Manufacturer: GenuineIntel > Version: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) > CPUID: 0F27 > L2 Cache: 512 KB
Mmm... it seems a legacy Xeon :-? > I consulted Wikipedia's web page on Intel Processors > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_microprocessors), but was > unable to find a processor in the list which met all the criteria (Xeon > in the name, speed, and L2 cache). Intel has a very good and comprehensive site to find their micros: http://ark.intel.com/#server The "key" here is the clock speed, rated at 2.40 GHz (hope that value is for real) and there are a bunch of models listed there: http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced/?s=t&FamilyText=Legacy%20Intel%C2%AE%20Xeon%C2%AE%20Processor&ClockSpeed=2.4%20GHz All look like 32-bits capable. > The machine has a Phoenix BIOS, version 1.28, dated 05/22/2003. That may > help narrow things down. (For example, it is unlikely that a processor > introduced in 2008 would be given a BIOS dated in 2003.) Any ideas? > Oh, one other thing. Hyper-Threading was enabled in the BIOS, > suggesting that, as viewed by an operating system, the machine has at > least two CPUs. But that may not be 100% reliable. The machine has 1 > GB of RAM installed. (Two 512M SIMMs and 2 empty SIMM slots.) A quick test you can try is loading a 64-bits LiveCD, it will tell you in minutes ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k104mh$agf$5...@ger.gmane.org
