Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 13:44:20 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: kpielorz@tdx.co.uk (Karl Pielorz) Cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Off Topic(ish) - P-Pro Steppings... Message-ID: <199804211844.NAA07942@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <353CD7D1.ECA6F790@tdx.co.uk> from Karl Pielorz at "Apr 21, 98 06:30:57 pm"
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> 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 > :-) > As a datapoint, but not helpful to you... Both my CPU's are the same stepping, but have different cache sizes. (This is on my DNF.) John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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