Tall cool one wrote:
>
> I have recently setup a cluster of 5 dual processor PII 450 machines and
> am now having them throughly tested. I have already identified one
> processor as being "bad", in that while it is in the system, and is under
> load, it will within a very short time cause the system to spontaneously
> reboot. Now after some more testing we apparently have a second bad CPU.
> The kernel is 2.0.31 SMP which runs quite reliably on identical systems,
2.0.31 is a bit dated, ehh? Most go straigth for 2.1.xxx, at least 2.0.35 (36).
>
> ...the CPU's we ordered came in one big CPU box w/o official Intel
> "papers", so the possibility that one or more of them could have been
> relabeled has occured to me (not that official Intel papers are any gaurantee).
Always use well-reputed resellers...
>
> What I need to know is can the 450's be reliably identified (if I recall
> correctly they can), and where would be a good place to get the cpuid
> program and instructions on what values a PII 450 should return?
The german c't magazine has a range of testing tool, including one for testing
remarked chips: http://www.heise.de/ct/ - look for their ftp links.
Why the subject 'Overclocked'? _Do_ you overclock? If so, try going back within
specs limits and see if that solves anything.
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