Re: Adding a dual processor

From: Marc Reinig (Marco_at_newsgroups.nospam)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:24:44 -0800

OK, that makes sense.

Hopefully, it will be an automatic upgrade ;=)

Marco
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Marc Reinig
UCO/Lick Observatory
Laboratory for Adaptive Optics

"MIS_Man" <MISMan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Marc,
>
> It went backwords due to the fact that I did a clean reinstall of the O/S.
> This clean install was after one of the processors and the hard drive
> failed
> on me. The hard drive was not even recognizable to any BIOS! So I RMA'd
> the
> processor and the hard drive, blah, blah.. SO I reinstalled the system
> with a
> new hard drive two weeks ago. Just today I recieved the replacement
> processor
> and I am tempted to put it back into the workstation. The engineer that is
> using the system is using it for high end laser beam analysis...and the
> calculations take longer without the second processor <whimper>. Is this
> enough background information for you! hah...
>
> D.
>
> "Marc Reinig" wrote:
>
>> > It says ACPI Uniprocessor PC how do I change the HAL and kernel....
>>
>> OK, after a little research, it appears that on boot, the system will see
>> the second processor and load (or attempt to load) the MP modules. I'm
>> surprised it went backwards to a UP module though.
>>
>> So, just add the second processor (after turning your computer off), and
>> start it up. After it boots it may ask for your installation disks, so
>> have
>> them handy. When it is up and running, check the device manager again
>> and
>> see what it says.
>>
>> If that doesn't work, we can force a load, but you don't want to try that
>> as
>> a first option.
>>
>> Marco
>> ________________________
>> Marc Reinig
>> UCO/Lick Observatory
>> Laboratory for Adaptive Optics
>>
>>
>>

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