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May 18th, 2020 07:00
T7400 second physical cpu not recognized.
Hi Everyone! I've been googling for similar scenarios and havent had much luck so here's the run-down.
- T7400
- Two Xeon X5482 Quad Core processors installed.
- Stepping is matched
- Worked when originally installed 2+ years prior to this post, would show (2 processors) in system properties.
- HDD was going bad at one point, bought SSD and cloned original HDD to SSD put SSD in and off we go.
- Unplugged machine for a year or more, plugged back in runs fine but only one of the CPU's is being recognized by the system.
- Windows 64 Ultimate.
I have done the following things per what I could find online.
- Re-seated the cpus and applied new thermal paste.
- Reset the CMOS.
I currently am unable to setup a monitor to the system to reach the bios as some threads mention checking there if it shows two processors, I have also not yet swapped placement of the CPU's to see if it just doesn't boot that way? Unsure what that would check.
Any ideas on what I can look for while waiting on my HDMI to VGA dongle to arrive so I can check the BIOS? Or any idea on what might cause it to work and then no longer work? Basically I can buy another set on eBay but I don't want to do that and put them in to find the MOBO is bad, how can I verify where the problem is?
Any help would be appreciated!

