sounds like a fun project to me. Especially if the stuff is just laying around... On 5/10/06, Munir Nassar <tclug at beitsahour.net> wrote: > auditodd at comcast.net writes: > > > My brief search for a dual processor MB has specified the Athlon MP for > > processors. > > thats because MP stands for Multiple Processors > > > Does anyone know if the XP can be installed in place of an MP processor > > and still work? > > > > From what I've been able to find so far, there doesn't appear to be any > > difference. > > There is a very big difference, AMD has locked the XP models to NOT work in > SMP. Now i have heard of motherboards that work around that lock, more > commonly people have used the pencil trick to fool the motherboard(or the > processor, dont remember which) into thinking that the processor is an MP. > It goes something like this: using a pencil draw a line between point X and > Y on your AthlonXP to make it an MP. Needless to say this will in fact void > your warranty. > > So, no the XP will not work in SMP mode unless otherwise hacked. > > -- > Munir Nassar > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Loren H. Burlingame <loren at lhb.name> GPG Key ID: 0x112DCF4F "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." -William Shatner (a.k.a. Buck Murdock)