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ntwrkadmn

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November 6th, 2005 15:00

Installing 2nd CPU

PowerEdge 1500SC with a 1.3Ghz CPU and I justed received a second CPU I'm getting ready to install.
 
Couple questions:

 - Is there any changes I need to make in BIOS before or after installing the CPU? 
 - Will the new CPU be detected and begin working automatically? 
 - Any jumpers or anything I need to chage on the motherboard?
 - Do I need to install any heat sink goop beween the CPU and heatsink?
 
Thanks in advance.

Dev Mgr

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November 7th, 2005 10:00

This is a little off-topic from the questions, but did you check if the stepping on both processors are the same? On modern systems (read: modern P4 systems) it's a little more forgiving (still prefers same stepping, but might work with mismatch), but on P3 I'm pretty sure both processors need to be the same stepping.

Joshua2001

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November 15th, 2005 19:00

you should be able (if the CPUs match) just install the cpu and the computer should come up in 1 cpu mode. You need to replace the driver in device manager under your computer to i believe ACPI multiprocessor pc.

reboot and you should be ready to go, just did this with 5 servers (win2000 srv not win2003)

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