Question for multiprocessor system

[Sven_Lee]

My friend has an Intel Serverboard model L440GX+ with two 1 gig P3 processors.. For some reason it's only recognizing one processor.. Anyone know why this may be? He's also running Windows XP Pro and has 1 gig of Ram.

 

[Peach]

could the other cpu be disabled in the bios?

 

[DanK]

Have you verified that each processor works OK by itself?

I'm not an intel person (so if I'm wrong someone please correct me) but I believe that both CPUs have to be of the same core revision for it to work.

 

[Sven_Lee]

yeah I'm not sure I've never dealt with a dual cpu system myself.. The bios is very old and very basic, I looked through it, didn't see anything to enable another processor or anything..

 

[defakto]

Both cpu's should be the same core, but unofficially it works otherwise. Where doesn't it recognize the cpu's in windows, or during boot up?

 

[unhappy_mage]

How about if you swap the CPUs? or try just A and just B?

 

[defakto]

For that particular chipset I believe he will need a cpu terminator card to run a single CPU. I know alot of the slot based chipsets around that time frame needed the terminator card to run a single CPU. So he may not be able to do that test.


Does it recognize both cpus during at the bios level during the initial post?