Apollyon Posted December 28, 2002 Share Posted December 28, 2002 OK, a friend of mine bought 2 with the intention of modding them to run as dual MPs (see the other athlon thread here). Now we replaced the motherboard, processors and everything. turned it on - "CPU 01 does not support MP dual processing", ok I expected that (we had not modded either processor yet). SO lets try it with just 1 processor - problem. When it starts up it gets to the screen- Windows did not properly start up please select an opyion below:safe modesafe mode with networkingsafe mode - command promptuse previous working settingsnormal startupNow, on every choice the computer freezes completely. Either that or it complains about a corrupt INI file or other file related corruptions. Any ideas? Is it simply that we've set it up incorrectly (hardware). We cannot reformat as the recovery discs (both ME and 2000) both crash before they can start up (freeze). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyarlathotep Posted December 28, 2002 Share Posted December 28, 2002 if you go for dual processors, forget ME. That's one. Next, you can't do a fresh install with just one processor (preferrable an MP if you have it) ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollyon Posted December 28, 2002 Author Share Posted December 28, 2002 are you asking me if I can do a fresh install with just 1 processor? Well its all with 1 processor at the moment as only 1 functions and the answer is no, it freezes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gryphon Posted December 29, 2002 Share Posted December 29, 2002 Did you get a sort of terminator connector with the motherboard.When you're using just one CPU you can't just leave the other one open [ in some cases ], that's where some manufactors provide a sort of terminator to place in the CPU socket.[ and I can vagely remember something about Athlons MP's, don't know if they can work individually :- ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollyon Posted December 29, 2002 Author Share Posted December 29, 2002 theyre XPs, and both are plugged in but neither are yet modded to act as MPs (its complicated...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gryphon Posted December 29, 2002 Share Posted December 29, 2002 A little bit confused now .. . are they both identicall types of CPU's ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollyon Posted December 29, 2002 Author Share Posted December 29, 2002 they are both AMD athlon XPs one is a 1.6ghz and one is a 1.8ghz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollyon Posted December 31, 2002 Author Share Posted December 31, 2002 any help? Please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyarlathotep Posted December 31, 2002 Share Posted December 31, 2002 What I meant was did you install with just one processor, or both ? If you did with both and then took one out, that's not what I meant.Put one processor in, take the other one out and do a fresh install again to see what happens. If this IS what you did, I'll look into it further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollyon Posted December 31, 2002 Author Share Posted December 31, 2002 yes, I tried that. I think it must be a hardware setup problem or the harddrive is somehow corrupted :- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domzique Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 :O :OHhi i'm new here, and it's my first post. :PI have a dual amd processors system, and it works greatlyI have 2 amp mp processors.I don't know if you can use an XP processor to work with dual thread motherboard. Why do you use an xp processor ?Actually, you can work with one processor, without a "terminator", but you should use an MP processor. forget win Me, 98, 2000 => you must work with NT 4.0, win XP pro.ANd you can calibrate your machine by the bios (it is not easy, but use the notice).Before the calibration, search the voltage of your cpus, ram, the frequency of your rams, etc., to adjust all jumpers on the motherboard. Then, you can configure the bios. My english isn't really, because i'm french. SORRY :P ;)bye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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