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July 6, 2000 at 03:31 PM
karsudha

IBM NETFINITY 5600 SERVER – dual process

by karsudha . Updated 25 years, 11 months ago

HI FRIENDS,

I JUST INSTALLED A IBM NETFINITY 5600 SERVER WITH DUAL PIII 600Mhg/256 L2 cache/133mHZ FSB.INITIALLY THE BIOS IS NOT DETECTING THE SECOND PROCESSOR.AFTER UPDATING THE BIOS WITH THE LATEST RELEASE 11,BIOS RECOGNISING THE SECOND PROCESSOR.BUT NOW NT SEREVR IS NOT RECOGNISING THE SECOND PROCESSOR.AS MY KNOWLEDGE GOES WHEN NT SETUP STARTS IT SHOULD AUTOMATICALLY RECOGNISE TWO PROCESSORS.THE NT VERSION I AM USING IS FOR 4PROCESSORS. SO, WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?.SHOULD I INSTALL WITH ONE PROCESSOR AND LATER MODIFY THE KERNEL TO ADD THE SECOND PROCESSOR SUPPORT OR ANY OTHER METHOD IN WHICH I CAN TELL NT TO RECOGNISE THE SECOND PROCESSOR.

PLEASE HELP ME.MATTER IS MOST URGENT.THANKS IN ADVANCE

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