Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and don't have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer has a single Xeon 2.8GHz CPU and I'd like to purchase another CPU. Question is, can I simply match another Xeon of the same speed and expect it to work? If

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread martin hudec
Hello, On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:44:46PM -0500 or thereabouts, Doug Poland wrote: > I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and don't > have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer has a > single Xeon 2.8GHz CPU and I'd like to purchase another CPU. Question

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Oct 19, 2005, at 4:44 PM, Doug Poland wrote: I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and don't have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer has a single Xeon 2.8GHz CPU and I'd like to purchase another CPU. Question is, can I simply match another Xeon o

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:44 PM 10/19/2005, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and don't have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer has a single Xeon 2.8GHz CPU and I'd like to purchase another CPU. Question is, can I simply match another Xeon

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
Charles Swiger wrote: > On Oct 19, 2005, at 4:44 PM, Doug Poland wrote: > >> I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and don't >> have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer has a >> single Xeon 2.8GHz CPU and I'd like to purchase another CPU. Question >> i

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 03:57 PM 10/19/2005, Kurt Buff wrote: Charles Swiger wrote: > On Oct 19, 2005, at 4:44 PM, Doug Poland wrote: > >> I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and don't >> have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer has a >> single Xeon 2.8GHz CPU and I'd li

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread martin hudec
Hello, On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 06:26:54PM -0500 or thereabouts, Doug Poland wrote: > Well, I have dmesg output and the output from dmidecode. I may be dense > but I don't see the sSpec number in the output. Can it be derived from > these data? Well I don't know anything at all about sSpec num

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Glenn Dawson wrote: At 03:57 PM 10/19/2005, Kurt Buff wrote: [ ... ] You want to get the same speed, FSB, and family number of Xeon, and it is preferable to get the same stepping number if possible. It's better to match the sSpec numbers...those include the stepping, and not all processors

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 04:48 PM 10/19/2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: Glenn Dawson wrote: At 03:57 PM 10/19/2005, Kurt Buff wrote: [ ... ] You want to get the same speed, FSB, and family number of Xeon, and it is preferable to get the same stepping number if possible. It's better to match the sSpec numbers...those inc

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 07:48:34PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Glenn Dawson wrote: > >At 03:57 PM 10/19/2005, Kurt Buff wrote: > [ ... ] > >>>You want to get the same speed, FSB, and family number of Xeon, and > >>>it is preferable to get the same stepping number if possible. > > > >It's better to

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:15:26AM +0200, martin hudec wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:44:46PM -0500 or thereabouts, Doug Poland wrote: > > I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and > > don't have convenient access to the hardware itself. The computer > > ha

Re: Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

2005-10-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Well, I have dmesg output and the output from dmidecode. I may be dense > but I don't see the sSpec number in the output. Can it be derived from > these data? from what I understand you get the sSpec number from CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (2793.01-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "Genuin