[ale] SMP problems with Tyan Tiger MB

[John Mills]

James -

Thanks for the information and a simple way to test it.

I guess there are bound to be capability limits when you patronize 
"Curbside Computers'R'Us", even in a good neighborhood (better than mine, 
anyway ...).

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> You have an incompatible mix of "steppings" with the PIII's. If the
> system run OK with either cpu in single use, then the cpu's are both
> good. If the system pukes in dual cpu mode with an smb kernel but not
> with a non-smb kernel, you have the mismatch issue with the cpu's. The
> PIII series up until the server class (1.1GHz+ w/512k L2) had to have
> identical stepping rates.

 - Mills