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Re: Booting w/ dual CPUs hangs



Quoting David Palmer. <davidpalmer@westnet.com.au>:
> You could also put a couple of Athlon 2000s on that board. It was
> actually made with AMD in mind, specifically MP processors, but in
> actual fact there is very little difference between the Athlon and the
> MP. The Athlon has a config turned off, but if you know what you are
> doing, apparently you can switch that back on too, if you need it.
> That would really make that board hum.
> Regards,
> 
> David.
> 
> 

The MB is a Tyan Thunder 2 S1696D
(http://www17.tomshardware.com/motherboard/19971028/440lx-09.html) for
Pentium IIs from Fall 1997.  My CPUs are 300MHz.  I seriously doubt it
will run Athlons, especially at 1.7GHz.  But I'm willing to be
convinced.

Jeffrey



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