GA-6BXD and dual Coppermines

[dre]

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Hi all, I currently have a GA-6BXD and I'm trying to get 2 SL5QV Pentium 3,
1gig Coppermines to work on it. I have found that the following slotkets are
the only ones capable:

Asus S370-DL
Abit Slotket III
MSI 6905 rev 2.0

I have a matching pair of MSI 6905 rev 2.3's and a pair of no-brand slotkets
that apparently also support both dual cpu and coppermine.

Now I can get one cpu to work with one of the no-brand slotkets, in either
slot, and I have been running this for quite a while now with absolutely no
problems. The problem is whenever I try and add the second cpu with no-brand
slotket I get nothing, no screen, no beeps, dead.

Also whenever I try and use one cpu with one of the MSI slotkets I also get
nothing, no matter how I configure the slotket.

Is there something I am missing when trying to get this to work? I
understand that the motherboard and CPU's are capable of running in a dual
configuration but I cannot make it work!

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers Dre

 

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In message <38i8jrF5n3jltU1@individual.net>, Dre <blah@somewhere.com>
writes
>Hi all, I currently have a GA-6BXD and I'm trying to get 2 SL5QV Pentium 3,
>1gig Coppermines to work on it. I have found that the following slotkets are
>the only ones capable:
>
>Asus S370-DL
>Abit Slotket III
>MSI 6905 rev 2.0
>
>I have a matching pair of MSI 6905 rev 2.3's and a pair of no-brand slotkets
>that apparently also support both dual cpu and coppermine.
>
>Now I can get one cpu to work with one of the no-brand slotkets, in either
>slot, and I have been running this for quite a while now with absolutely no
>problems. The problem is whenever I try and add the second cpu with no-brand
>slotket I get nothing, no screen, no beeps, dead.
>
>Also whenever I try and use one cpu with one of the MSI slotkets I also get
>nothing, no matter how I configure the slotket.
>
>Is there something I am missing when trying to get this to work? I
>understand that the motherboard and CPU's are capable of running in a dual
>configuration but I cannot make it work!
>
>Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>Cheers Dre
>
>
Suggests that the slockets are not really dual capable. I remember long
threads on this topic just after I got my board.

I have a BXDS (with SCSI), there is nothing special about dual - I just
put both processors (mine are 1Ghz Slot 1's) in and the BIOS detects
them.

Interestingly my board will only accept a single processor if it is in a
particular slot (B?).
--
Peter R Cook