Mutant SMP. Is it impossible?

[Positiv]

Sorry Jeepman, but I ordered 2 iwill socket II adapters from an Ebay action but so far it didn't get here.
As soon as I get it I will post the results...
Positiv.

system:

Iwill DBL dual board, (2)P3 500 @560, 512mb pc100, (2) 18gig 7200 ata66 in Raid, blaster live!, G400 DH32 vanilla, voodoo3000 (for my second monitor), Pioneer 10xdvd, Plextor scsi 40X Ultra wide, zip250 int. Windows 2000.



[This message has been edited by Positiv (edited 16 February 2000).]

[Positiv]

OK,

I just got the (2) Iwill socket II adapters, placed the (2) 550e socket p3 processors on my dual board (Iwill DBL) and the bios of the motherboard does not recognize the 2 cpus.
aahhhhh!!
It works well with only (1) cpu.
I can overclock it easy to 733mhz on the 133bus.

Once I try to put the 2 processors the computer freezes after the memory test (which goes successfully).

Now, I don't know if the 550e are SMP disable by hardware or
If the Iwill socket II does not support dual FC-PGA processor or
If my Iwill DBL motherboard does not recognize the dual 550e and needs a new bios update (which I have the latest right now!)

I'm very disapointed......
Any thoughts?????

Positiv

[jeepman]

Positiv,

I can't recall the cache on the Katmai. Is it 512KB? The 256KB cache on the Coppermines may be experiencing the issue of "Cache incoherency." It is a real problem in SMP systems, but I am no SMP expert. Do you know if your BIOS explictitly supports the 256KB cache based PIII FC-PGA? You may be getting away with only one because it may not matter that much in a single CPU implementation.

If not, you may want to try and be a beta tester for IWill if they do that. I would think they would realize they may sell more dual boards if people know they can go dual PIII FC-PGA's.

[This message has been edited by jeepman (edited 17 February 2000).]