[SunRescue] Re: Multiprocessor intel boards (hate to interrupt the flamewar)

[Bran Tregare]

it's a proliant 5000?  my former employer may still have one of those in 
service as a backup machine, I may be able to get them to pull the vrm's 
and try powering it up :)

At 07:21 PM 4/9/01 -0700, you wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Bran Tregare wrote:
> >
> > > What speed of PPro do you have for that box?  I may be able to point 
> you to
> > > inexpensive VRM's if they are the standard ppro vrm.
>
>I have four 200/512 chips sitting here that could be used for the Proliant
>5000-series server. However...
>
>On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 nick at snowman.net wrote:
>
> > It sounds like they are not.  I am not as familiar with the compaqs, and
> > now that I look they appear to be nonstandard.  However it is still
> > looking at.  For anyone with ppros, the PPro upgrade intel put out is
> > starting to come down in price, all the bennies of a 333mhz pii + all the
> > bennies of a PPro (full speed l2).
>
>Nick is correct, they are weird Compaq "Processor Power Modules" and it
>appears there's one per cpu plus one per dual-cpu board, total of six
>needed and I was seeing $40 each best-case pricing a while back.
>
>When I had the CPUs and memory in the system and powered it up, it didn't
>power up. No noise or fans in the power supply. I don't know if this is a
>PPM issue or if the PS or MB is shot. It's going to be a hard sell for me
>to shell out $240+ if I don't know the system even works (anybody got one
>and know if it fails to power up without PPMs on the baord?). Would rather
>cluster a pair of duals that I know will work (anybody played with Sun
>Grid Engine?)...
>
>--Rob
>
>Robert Novak, Indyramp Consulting * rnovak at indyramp.com * indyramp.com/~rnovak
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> crows
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