abit vp6 mobo help needed!!!

[wired]

im trying to run dual p3 733s .....can anyone help me in setting this up in the bios......i wanna make sure they both are being used.......thanks

 

[klosters64a]

Any help out there?

 

[BeachBum]

HMMM...Dont know....HaHa....Wsup Dude

 

[whiskey![Nw]]

good luck..! i stuck my finger in the heatsink/fan, now i cant find it, MEDIC!!

wheres your picture beachbum?

 

[Treker]

wired (Apr 09, 2001 06:19 p.m.):
im trying to run dual p3 733s .....can anyone help me in setting this up in the bios......i wanna make sure they both are being used.......thanks

I have a vp6 myself, as dose tim, I'm sure he'll reply shortly, and probaly with a better answer than me, but here I go

Well forstarters the bios autodects the chips themself, but you probaly need to set the speed, I had to, for your 733mhz chips, hold del, enter the softmenu, cpu speed, look for 733 and select that, or go to user defined and manual set your multiplyer and fsb, which would be, 7x 133fsb.

after that safe changes and reboot, you should see it pop up saying something along the line of 733mhz, 2 cpu's.

thats pretty basic me thinks, but good luck anyways.

-Trek

*edit*
Oh by the way only a dual processor operating system (smp enabled) will actually put the second cpu to use, for example, win2k, and various flavors of linux.
*edit*

 

[Tim-]

I think Treker summed it up pretty much. The only way both cpus will be used is with an SMP operating system like NT/2000/Linux/Beos, etc. If you installed NT/2000 with only one cpu present, you can open the device manager and right click "computer" and select between single and dual cpu types. If this doesn't work you will likely need to reinstall with both cpus present- it should then find both and install the appropriate kernel.