Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:01:52 +0200 From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PR440fx (Toshiba) + SMP ? Message-ID: <19980818110152.12065@deepo.prosa.dk> In-Reply-To: <v04011702b1fe80b58d87@[128.113.24.47]>; from Garance A Drosihn on Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 09:33:00PM -0400 References: <19980817220046.44173@deepo.prosa.dk> <v04011702b1fe80b58d87@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn writes:
>
> Turns out I had put the CPU in wrong. I knew it was a "zero
> insertion force" socket, so I dropped the chip on the socket
> and sure enough it seemed to fit there with zero force.
Heh. I feel less alone :-)
> If you want to eliminate FreeBSD from the equation, you could
> check the BIOS to see if *it* sees the second CPU.
It does now.
> Also, at least on my machine (a Toshiba 6200M), you will *not*
> see the name "Toshiba" displayed at boot if you have updated
> to the latest BIOS from Intel for the PR440FX.
Very true -- the latest (01.00.08, I think) displays
a plain "Intel Corporation" message.
> Upgrading the BIOS (at least
> on my machine) is somewhat tricky, as the only way to get
> the BIOS upgrade to work is to change the jumper on the
> motherboard to use the "emergency" BIOS upgrade procedure.
This was mentioned in the list archives, yes: it always
fails in standard mode -- you have to move the jumper
to the up position, boot blind, wait for two beeps,
turn off the system, and put the jumper back down.
--
-[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]-
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