Hello,
> > When googling for this I find references that at least for Pentium's the
> > stepping of cpu's in dual processor boards must be identical in most
> > cases. Guess that might be your problem indeed.
>
> Athlons are different from Pentiums: you can mix up every stepping, the only
> requ
On Saturday 13 September 2003 15:24, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> > Have you tried swapping the cpu's? Not sure if the 2 cpu's should be
> > identical. See the MB docs for that.
No, I haven't tried it... But I don't think this could be a problem, except in
case of some weird bug somewhere (B
> Hello niteowl,
> Have you tried swapping the cpu's? Not sure if the 2 cpu's should be
> identical. See the MB docs for that.
When googling for this I find references that at least for Pentium's the
stepping of cpu's in dual processor boards must be identical in most cases.
Guess that might
Hello niteowl,
> I have a very strange problem on my dual Athlon MP system since CPU
> initialization seems to be performed in a random way. In about 50% of
> bootstraps the kernel manages to correctly enable the second CPU, in the
> other 50% not.
I have no idea what causes this, but I am qui
Hello all.
I have a very strange problem on my dual Athlon MP system since CPU
initialization seems to be performed in a random way. In about 50% of
bootstraps the kernel manages to correctly enable the second CPU, in the
other 50% not. In the former case the system is rock solid, in the latter