Proliant 800 dual procs and windows OS

[Mark_592]

Hello,

I hope someone can help me..I have a compaq Proliant 800 with dual 400Mhz processors with the latest rom update. I am trying to install windows 2000 server without luck...The initiall setup goes smooth and then when it comes to the reboot and starting up the machine shutsdown and restarts. I must mention that this happens when tryting to install any MS OS i.e (XP,2000,NT4:clients and servers versions), but if I pull out the secound processor the setup goes as smooth as can be expected. At first I thought I had a dead processor but all linux OS's install and recongnize the processor without any problems. I have tried pressing F5 at the setup prompt add scii drivers and selected all the available options: some freeze the computer at startup and the others shutdown and restart.
Please what am I missing or is this a hardware problem.
Thanks for your help

[Jeff Brown_15]

What happens when you install W2K Server with one processor then add the second processor physically and update the OS drivers to see the second processor?

[Mark_592]

Hi it curls over and dies just like doing a fresh install..I have just got a new vrm cause I though that might be the problem and going to try that right now and see if that works.

Mark

[Jeff Brown_15]

Any luck with the VRM?