Percision 530!!! WOW that's a beast alright. My experience with Duals is that you should always have matched pairs. Both the family and the batch should be the same; not to mention that both CPUs NEED to be the same speeds as well. Look on the CPU for this information. Its going to be a bitch to find the matching CPU on your own. Try CompUSA as I had wonderful experiences with them. If not you should contact Dell for it, they gonna rip you off but they should save you on trouble and restocking fees.
Hope this helps. Randall Oshita, IT Manager Uniserve, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 808.956.1065 Fax: 808.956.1008 Web: www.uniserveinc.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Lockhart Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 8:24 AM To: luau Subject: [luau] blindsided Sorry, not a linux specific question, but hey, it's for my linux box ;o) I have a Dell Precision 530 workstation, one of those dual Xeon systems, though I ordered only a single processor. I recently ordered a second processor from a company called Googlegear.com (this is where the bad karma comes in...). Basically I ordered a 1.5Ghz Xeon processor. I got it, and installed it, and get a processor mismatch warning. So I go reading through the (ok, admittedly, not-so-)fine print, and find out that what they sent me was a Xeon processor that only supports dual processing. I hadn't known there was such a beast. Any ideas whether this thing ought to work? I'm thinking that I need two "independent operation capable" processors for my box. The unhappy ending is that the company isn't very kind, they're charging me a 15% restocking fee + I pay shipping. My explanation that what I ordered and what I got is, according to them, not valid, as I ordered an item with a particular part number and got an item with that part number. Kind of a bait-n-switch, but not a lot that I can do. Sorry if I'm just ranting, it's been a long morning already. -Charles _______________________________________________ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau