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Re: [LUG] Hardware: SMP Board, One Processor...



On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:37:08 +0100
Rob Heath <robs_mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

ok the terminator board is required but these are usually part of the
actual motherboard but i could be proved wrong

The manual mentions using a terminator board specifically, and has a nice little 
diagram of a PCB going into the processor slot (just in case the user wondered what 
"terminator card" would mean... Arnie trading cards, perhaps?  Who writes these 
things!).  I had hoped that it would be a self-terminating board since I have only 1 
PII that is available... and the other isn't matched.

you have to use matched pairs of processors my last dual board ran 2
processors with sequential serial no's but that maybe a little over the
top

Hmmm... I wonder...  Would it really be worth my while finding a matched PII when I 
only spent a whole £1 at the "Recycling Centre" for the mobo itself?

if you only run 1 processor  you have to put it in the master slot the
terminators are usually on the secondary slot

Yep, done that.

celerons will only dual process if you start cutting and soldering wires
to the pins on the chip

Were there specific cellys manufactured for smping?  Only reason I ask is that my 
bro has had a smp celly 400 board for donkey's years and it duals nicely.

Anyho, thanks for the info.

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