From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Apr 21 10:31:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA21136 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 10:31:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21099 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 17:31:08 GMT (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00248 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 18:31:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <353CD7D1.ECA6F790@tdx.co.uk> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 18:30:57 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Off Topic(ish) - P-Pro Steppings... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi All, This is kinda-off topic... I've just aquired a second CPU for my P6DNF SuperMicro motherboard... It's allready got a P-Pro 200 (256) Stepping #9 in it, and the new one is a P-Pro 200 (256) Stepping 6. The machine refuses to boot - I was just at the point of blaming FreeBSD, when I realised - it's not even getting to the boot loader... The moment the machine tries to access the Floppy, IDE or SCSI to boot it just locks dead... Has anyone else got any experience mixing odd stepping CPU's? - According to intel they dont 'recomend' it, but say it should work (a bit like running a 256k P-Pro with a 512k P-Pro - not recomended, but apparently it does work :-) Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message