Thanks both of you.
I've seen the BIOS support problem before with older
AMDs and am very familiar with it.
The "other half" of the story is I won both parts at different
"trade" events. So, I was sort of locked into them with no
choice. (It is a long story.)
I'm hoping this MB will have the "recovery option"
Intel introduced in '09, where it will boot with a
corrupted and/or defective BIOS flash and DIRECTLY
flash from from a CD or USB stick.
Intel has up to six ways to flash a BIOS, and I've used 4
of them.
Thanks again, and wish me luck.
I can get a new i7-920 for $225 approx.
(I never push the limits and have no great need for speed.)
(It will take a couple weeks, min...)
Rick Glazier
From: <tmservo
Brief check tells me you need the newest bios to pull that off. No problem. Except you'd need -some- chip to go in it and boot
to get a flash done. Kind of a catch22.
From: "Greg Sevart"
It -should- work. They're the same socket, but the 55xx series Xeons have an
additional QPI link for 2P (multi-socket) operation. Other than that, the
55xx series offers no benefits aside from perhaps a little more individual
validation relative to its single-QPI siblings.
I'm waiting for the 2.8GHz i7-930 in February before moving away from my
3.6GHz C2Q.
