TMC Adapters Not Working

[ByteEdge]

For the last couple weeks I've been running at 13.5x150 A-ok with Emboss's MF_191 bios and the boot disk to set the multiplier to 13.5.

I bought 2 XP-TMC adapters so I could get higher multipliers, I set the adapter to 15 and all I get is 13.5, tried 16 same thing. Crystal ID shows the Boot multiplier is whatever I set the adapter to but the Max it says is 13.5.

Also XP doesn't see it as Dual processors anymore, under Computer it still shows ACPI Multiprocessor PC but under processors it only shows 1 processor.

Any ideas?

[diehrd]

Set it back with out them make sure processors are ok..Adapters may be bad /

[ByteEdge]

I did just that, and they're working fine again using the bootdisk method. Maybe they are bad or at least one of them.

[emboss]

This is a side-effect of the current bios, unfortunately. If you set the startup multiplier to be more than the maximum multiplier, then CPU0 runs at the maximum multiplier and CPU1 runs at the startup multiplier (there is a PowerNow transition done during POST to the startup multiplier on CPU0 only, and this is capped to the maximum multiplier). I can upload the the BIOS patch part of the 0.10 BIOS that fixes this, but it hasn't been tested yet (though it's only a small modification of the 0.09_MF BIOS so it should be fine).

[ByteEdge]

emboss that would be great if you could upload the .1 bios, I'll be willing to try it out.