I would start by booting up and checking out the BIOS. See if there is a setting for auto-probing your installed CPU to report how many and of what kind are installed.
Any missing CPU or mis-reported CPU should be treated as suspect and possibly re-seated. Another thought... if the fan/cooler-plate for the CPU is not making good contact with the CPU, you may end up with over-heating. If this occurs, could the Intel based CPU speed-step down the speed of the CPU to bring it withing acceptable temperature? *and* if this happens on a multi-processor system with one processor running at a stepped speed lower than the rest, could this pose a problem for the board and OS? Ideas to check... wheeeee, isn't this fun? -ME -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS/CM$/IT$/LS$/S/O$ !d--(++) !s !a+++(-----) C++$(++++) U++++$(+$) P+$>+++ L+++$(++) E W+++$(+) N+ o K w+$>++>+++ O-@ M+$ V-$>- !PS !PE Y+ !PGP t@-(++) 5+@ X@ R- tv- b++ DI+++ D+ G--@ e+>++>++++ h(++)>+ r*>? z? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ decode: http://www.ebb.org/ungeek/ about: http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html Systems Department Operating Systems Analyst for the SSU Library On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i unplugged the processors from my dual celery 550 to change the fans > which were failing, and i get this same message too. pressing F1 works > to get the machine past this bios message. > > so if anyone knows the answer, please post it! i'm interested in the > answer myself. > > pete > > > begin Richard S. Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > In our corner of Dixon, the power goes out if someone looks at a power > > line funny. It happened earlier today, just a blink in the power. > > > > I was away from my computer at the moment. When I got back, I saw that > > my computer had been forced to reboot. The boot process had stalled, > > though, with the following message: > > > > CPU IS UNWORKABLE OR HAS CHANGED -- Please rescan now > > > > (It's a dual-processor system) > > > > I pressed F1 and was able to finish booting just fine. The computer > > runs both win2k and Linux without any change in performance from before, > > and there is no sign that the computer is slower or not working or > > anything. What does this mean, and how do I fix it? I am by no stretch > > of the imagination a hardware guy; I can hook up a printer and install a > > CD-ROM drive and a couple of memory chips if absolutely necessary, but I > > much prefer not to mess with my computer's guts. > > > > Any thoughts? Prayers? > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech