What warranty? ;-) Erick Stohr wrote: > I don't know if anyone else has run into/done this, but I bought an > Asus A7M266-D yesterday and 2 Athlon XP 2200's becuase the place I > bought the board at was out of MP's (Nano had 1 1.2 MP and the others > they had were $150 or so a processor) and I was told by someone at the > store that sometimes you can drop XP's in and they will be read as > MP's, so going for a cheaper dual system and potentially less stable I > bought this stuff, got home and dropped a CPU in and it read fine as a > single, but not as an MP, and then dropped the second in and same > result, not read by the BIOS as an MP. So i googled. Come to find out > the earlier versions of the XP, I think before 1800, worked as MP's on > dual boards becuase there is a bridge on the L5 cache that is open and > on the newer XP's this is closed. Long story short, there are a bunch > of articles out there on how to unlock the L5 cache and after about 6 > hrs last night and 5 this morning I got the XP's to read as MP's using > a Rear Window Defog Repair Kit, which people suggest in the articles > and I overlooked. I am not a hardware geek so this was quite the > accomplishment for me and of course I made it more difficult that it > should have been, but it was fun. Got Debian up on the system with no > problems. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list