topic Installing a New Processor in Netservers

Installing a New Processor

Jonathan Tooze — Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:59:00 GMT

I am trying to find information regarding installation of a second processor, can anyone point me in the right direction?

I have an LH3 with a P500 and I would like to install another P500.

Thank you.

Re: Installing a New Processor

Joe Colucci_1 — Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:45:36 GMT

Jonathon,

What kind of information are you looking for? You can find the product number on the processor you currently have installed.

Re: Installing a New Processor

Paul R. Dittrich — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 12:16:17 GMT

The physical install is trivial: take the usual anti-static precautions and simply plug in the 2nd processor and Voltage Regulator Module.
But....You will probably have to reinstall the OS to recognize and use the 2nd processor.

Re: Installing a New Processor

Ed Fantini — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:23:41 GMT

Indeed - plug in the regulator and Processor and BIOS will take it from there. I'm running Win2K Pro, and it did not see the new processor, even after SP2.
I'll be reloading the OS soon.

Re: Installing a New Processor

Enes Dizdarevic — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 06:23:06 GMT

Hi!
If you are running Win2K you dont have to reload (reinstall) OS in order to make it to see second processor. Go to device manager, expand computer. If you have installed OS with one processor you will probably se "ACPI Uniprocessor PC" driver. Select it and in propertis select driver tab driver. There you can select update driver. This action will install multiprocesor HAL if you have two processors now. You need to restart server after that. Windows NT 4.0 requires different and very complicated procedure.