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February 23rd, 2011 19:00
Poweredge 2600 cpu upgrade
Hello all,
First post here so be gentle. I'm a Networking student and i have a Poweredge 2600 w/ dual 2.4 Ghz xeon's with a 533 Mhz fsb 604 pin, and i want to upgrade to 3.2 xeon cpu's w/ the same fsb but have a 1mb cache. Will i need to upgrade the bios for the new processors, and my biggest question, is this recomended? This machine is part of my server lab and i would rather not damage this machine or face costly repair. Is this a fairly easy process? Any help or advice would be great.
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jp2600
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February 24th, 2011 07:00
So does that mean i can just install the new processors and the motherboard will support them or will i need to go through additional steps?
jp2600
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March 3rd, 2011 04:00
So i was able to upgrade the BIOS to the newest version. This site had nothing for download for BMC unless it is commonly known as something else. Anyway, i installed the new processors and they are working fine. BIOS recognizes them as 3200 Mhz , I downloaded a processor ID tool from Intel and that worked fine. The machine is still showing two 2.4 xeon processors in the device manager. Is there a dell link for BMC drivers, and what can i do to update the info in device manager?
jp2600
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March 3rd, 2011 09:00
processors show correctly in every place except in the device manager
redhatlab
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November 15th, 2011 09:00
Beside the issue with the device manager, do you got any performance improvement with the upgrade?