On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 21:09, RMH wrote: > Roberto de Iriarte wrote: > > > > Scott Likens wrote: > > > > >On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 03:27, Tom wrote: > > > > > > > > >>On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Scott Likens wrote: > > >> > > >>... > > >> > > >> > > >>>Onboard SCSI, 1gig of ECC, dual P2-450's. Never had this problem > > >>>before. > > >>> > > >>> > > >> I hope you are using P3s, or Xeon CPUs not P2s, since P2s are not able > > >>to cache memory above 512MB, which means that things will be real slow. > > >> > > >> > > > > > >No, Dual P2 Xeons. > > > > > > > > > > > Hmmm ? Are you sure ? I own an L440GX+ and Xeon's do not fit on it. You > > might have either > > an MS440GX or a C440GX, the former being a workstation board (with AGP), > > the later an entry level server board > > if there are PII Xeon CPU's on it. > > Only first PIIs had L2 cache which was unable to store data located > beyond 512Mb memory boundary (233-300MHz, Klamath), and some of them > even didn't support ECC for L2 cache. All the next PIIs (333-450MHz, > Deschutes) had L2 cache with ECC, capable of all 4Gb. So PIIs are > not so bad as some people may think. Besides, L2 cache of PIIXeons > and some PIIIXeons (Drake & Tanner) is slow because it is off-core, > regardless of running at full core speed. > > --- > Regards, > Rhett > Also to note, that now the computer boots again with the madt.c 1.4.4 Thanks.Received on Thu Nov 06 2003 - 21:39:58 UTC
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