Hi, looks like you have an older motherboard that doesn't support Clovertown processors, the Xeon 5345 falls into this range. - " If you use a Clovertown processor on an older motherboard you will receive an incompatibility error message after POST"
The way to tell if you have a 1900 that works with the Clovertown range is there should be a circle icon on the front of the chassis with II in the centre of it. From what I can find you can only use a dual core from the Dempsey and Woodcrest range of procs, so no quad core I'm afraid.
Thanks for the reply.. got a pair of Xeon 5150s instead and it's running fine now.
Side note: Will my PE2950 support the Xeon 5345? I tried installing it and the same thing happened as with the PE1900 - Sees the CPU but halts with the same "unsupported CPU Configuration" error. Does it need a 2nd one?
DELL-Steve R
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November 11th, 2011 02:00
Hi, looks like you have an older motherboard that doesn't support Clovertown processors, the Xeon 5345 falls into this range. - " If you use a Clovertown processor on an older motherboard you will receive an incompatibility error message after POST"
The way to tell if you have a 1900 that works with the Clovertown range is there should be a circle icon on the front of the chassis with II in the centre of it. From what I can find you can only use a dual core from the Dempsey and Woodcrest range of procs, so no quad core I'm afraid.
Steve
Kaiser2000
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November 17th, 2011 16:00
Thanks for the reply.. got a pair of Xeon 5150s instead and it's running fine now.
Side note: Will my PE2950 support the Xeon 5345? I tried installing it and the same thing happened as with the PE1900 - Sees the CPU but halts with the same "unsupported CPU Configuration" error. Does it need a 2nd one?