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

[Robert Novak]

> 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

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