[ale] Dual pIII motherboard

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 10:27 -0400, Brian Akins wrote:
> I have 2 PIII 500Mhz CPU's and need a motherboard.  Can anyone point me 
> in the right direction?
> 
Since these are old cpu's the motherboards will be out of production. I
used ASUS boards for my dual PIII setup. In fact, it is _still_ running!

The "gotcha" for PIII dual stuff is the requirement for the stepping
mode to be identical. If they are not, the system will never boot. The
only way to check the stepping is to know the cpu codes printed on the
chips or to do a single cpu test boot and look at the output
from /proc/cpuinfo

> Thanks.
> 
> 
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