Duel PIII Coppermine questions...

[W.O.T. Stang]

I have an older system i'm playing around with at the moment that was given to me. It's an old HP Kayak system.

After looking at it, it's a 2 CPU board, but it seems one of the CPU's is dead. (locks up before POST.. CD-ROM lights stay on, NUM lock won't turn on/off)

Anyways, I took out one of the CPUS and mixed and matched them until I found out which one was defective, and got it to POST with one CPU, but get a termination card error (which I looked up and saw that you need one if your only running one CPU and also in any spare RDRAM slot... i'm an AMD guy so this was all new to me.)

Anyways, I was able to bypass the BIOS error with F1, and everything has been working fine after that. My question is will I hurt anything by not running a terminator card? I'm still quite shocked it seems to be working without one, but i'm not too surprised either, because I haven't played around with an intel-based system since my P233 MMX.

Just curious about this.. here is more info on the system from CPU-Z if you need it.

CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 1

Name Intel Pentium III EB
Code Name Coppermine
Specification Intel Pentium III EB 800MHz
Family / Model / Stepping 6 8 3
Extended Family / Model 0 0
Brand ID 2
Package Slot 1 SECC2
Core Stepping cB0
Technology 0.18 µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, SSE
CPU Clock Speed 798.2 MHz
Clock multiplier x 6.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 133.0 MHz
Bus Speed 133.0 MHz
L1 Data Cache 16 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 32 Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache 16 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 32 Bytes line size
L2 Cache 256 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 32 Bytes line size
L2 Latency 0
L2 Speed 798.2 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 ECC Check enabled
L2 Data Prefetch Logic no
L2 Bus Width 256 bits



Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
Motherboard model HP Kayak XM600 System Board, A05
BIOS vendor Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
BIOS revision IC.11.11US
BIOS release date 04/12/2001
Chipset Intel i820 rev. B1
Southbridge Intel 82801AA (ICH) rev. 02
Sensor chip Winbond W83782D




Memory
# of memory modules 3
Module 0 RDRAM PC714 - 256 MBytes
Module 1 RDRAM PC4176 - 256 MBytes
Module 2 ROM

 

[ZL1]

why not go out and buy one ? you can get these for like $10 these days


W.O.T. ZL1

 

[tdg]

It generally won't hurt anything not to run one, the reason they're used is to stop signal reflections over the bus, but I've never had problems with systems that didn't have a terminator, some of which were Kayaks.

 

[Shane]

Ya I suggest also just go buy one for 10-20 bucks heck might even visit a local used computer store near ya and they will give it to you for free.