Adding a second processor to my PowerEdge 1600SC running openSUSE 10.3

[Tino Schwarze]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 04:37:28PM -0400, John Bown wrote:

> The processors are identical.  Both are 2.4GHz Xeons with 533MHz bus
> speeds and 512KB of L2 cache.  I've double checked both the BIOS and
> motherboard for settings and/or jumpers that need to be configured prior
> to adding a second processor.  They are none that I can find.  There
> also doesn't appear to be a VRM that would need to be upgraded either.
> 
> The only difference I can see is the Intel sSpec numbers.  Do these have
> to match as well?  Perhaps one of the Dell hardware folks can comment.

I remember that Intel CPUs in SMP configurations need to be as
identical as possible. I'm not sure whether this is still true today.
Did you get the additional processor from Dell?

Tino.

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