He said 3, and was pretty explicit somewhere else that 3 was the
right number.
However, a bit of levity is also worthwhile, so here is a short
story. When my quad xeon 'chassis' arrived (I ordered parts from
here and there via pricewatch to contain the cost) I was unboxing
everything when a 'computer professional' stopped by. (this is a
person doing consulting all over town here.) He helped me unpack
it, and when I started installing the processors, I pulled out the
three included processor terminators. When I laid them down, he
quickly asked "why didn't they ship this with 4 of these? A shipping
error?"
I almost fell out of my chair laughing. And I had to explain why
before 'he got it.'
I did talk to a friend of mine running (puke) WinNT on one of these
and he tried 3 when one of his processors appeared to be DOA (the
diagnostic CD said this). He never got it to work. When he plugged
#4 in after getting a replacement, it worked. (it worked as good as
NT can be expected to work, I suppose). :)
Perhaps 3 is bad?
Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences
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On 19 Feb 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Udo Woehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >we have a Intel Server with 3 x Xeon 400MHz, 1GB RAM and GDT 6557 and on board
>Symbios
> >controller (1 x 896, 2 x 810). The chipset is 450NX
>
> Is that "3 x" a typo, or do you really have _three_ CPU's?
>
> I haven't heard of anybody testing that setup before. I know it works
> with four and two, but I wonder what happens when one socket is empty.
>
> Linus
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