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by peter

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HI,
I have bought a second hand DIGITAL PRIORIS HX6000 server which comes with a motherboard with INTEL PCI440FX Chipset and the possibility of having a dual processor pentium II box mmx technology...
for the moment do I have 1 processor installed with 266 MHZ speed...
In order to have a bigger procesor installed do I have to upgrade the BIOS according the manual you can find on the compaq(HP) website...
I found all necessary updates and diskettes to upgrade the BIOS and when attemptingtoo the computer accepts the new BIOS and starts up , does NOT give any POST errors, show the splash screen of windows XP professional edition and than the blue line begins to run BUT just before i have to get the wellcome screen the computer shows me a black screen and waits and waits than forever... NO blue screen restarts no error messages NO nothing??
The only way i can start up the computer after this BIOS upgrade is in SAFE mode, NO VGA mode or anything else....
I think it is the embedded VGA adapter who has problems with the BIOS upgrade but it is a S3 TRIO 64V+ and I don'tfind any drivers for this for XP....

I also have another problem:
Like I said i can install two processors and I have 2 266MHZ 512lcache stepping 3 processors , so i installed them both and than my computer works fine except from the fact that my ISDN connection gives ma than blue screen start up when i decide to download over 2 channels max speed 128 Kb/sec....
I have the same problem now with one processor , when i put the 2 channels on, the computer blocks after a while, but no blue screen errors with one processor??? Does somebody know a way to solve these problems??

Thanks

Peter Baetens

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by peter

I tried everything what was on these sites already, but nothing works... I think it is some trick you have to know, or some jumper that i don't know about??

by thechas

The black screen after XP boots up is likely caused by the display adapter being set for a video mode that your monitor does not support.

Many 14", and some 15" monitors do not support XPs default video mode.

I would try a newer monitor.

Asto CPU speed, many slot 1 boards were limited to 350MHz PII CPUs.
The next limit is 450MHz.

As to your other dual CPU issues, I have no suggestions.

Chas

by peter

I tried the monitor swap... I even installed a clean install of windows 98 to try if the bIOS was not corrupted, but with windows 98 do I not have the problem... But for security reasons do i like to have windows XP as OS...

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