SUMMARY: Moving CPU's

From: Tristan Ball <tristanb_at_vsl.com.au>
Date: Fri Aug 31 2001 - 03:20:37 EDT
Folks, it look's like I can't do this, the general consensus seems to be
that the UPA on the mother board can only handle fairly specific CPU clocks,
for a modern E450, the options are 400mhz or 480mhz.

T.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristan Ball" <tristanb@vsl.com.au>
To: "sun managers list" <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 2:37 PM
Subject: Moving CPU's


> Hi everyone.
>
> I'd like to exchange CPU's between a E420R, and a E450. The 450 has 2
296mhz
> CPU's, with a 99mhz system clock. The 420 has 2 450mhz CPU's, with a
113mhz
> clock. Is this as simple as just moving the CPU's, or do I need to modify
> the system clock or anything else?
>
> The 420 hardware answerbooks say the UPA clock is derived from the CPU
> clock, but it's rather vague as to wether this is automatic or not.
>
> Eternally gratefull for any info you can give! :-)
>
> T.
>
Received on Fri Aug 31 08:20:37 2001

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