From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 3 00:11:36 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740C616A417 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 00:11:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bitabyss@gmail.com) Received: from cartman.xxiii.com (cartman.xxiii.com [208.62.177.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 318CB13C447 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 00:11:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bitabyss@gmail.com) Received: from [192.168.1.23] (adsl-068-209-177-221.sip.ard.bellsouth.net [68.209.177.221]) by cartman.xxiii.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m030BQqG039926; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 19:11:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bitabyss@gmail.com) Message-ID: <477C283E.9070705@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:11:42 -0500 From: Rob User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 (Windows/20071210) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Maness References: <477AF4F3.1040703@chrismaness.com> In-Reply-To: <477AF4F3.1040703@chrismaness.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pIII coppermine? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:11:36 -0000 Chris Maness wrote: > I have an ABIT VP6 dual socket that I want to use as my FreeBSD server. > I only have one CPU installed, and I was told that if I were to add > another CPU that the serial numbers of the CPU had to be sequential. Is > this true? I see these processors on e-bay for $7 it would be nice to I assume you mean "BP6". It's best that they be the same "stepping" number; this is like an engineering revision level in Intelese. Usually looks like "SLQ7" or similar. But it wasn't required on those boards. Of course Intel never sanctioned Dual Celerons, which is what made it so cool :) I still have one of those with very low hours that I keep thinking I should dust off and recommission for sumpthin'. I hope you're not using this machine for any critical applications. All the ABIT boards of that day (circa 1999) had really low quality electrolytic capacitors in the voltage regulators that are notorious for failing. And the BP6 had one cap that got a totally wrong value installed on the board. Google BP6 capacitors and you'll find lots. Also www.BP6.com Have fun. -Rob [don't cc me; this is a bit-bucket address]