Re: SUMMARY: Re: swapping CPUs (additional details)

From: Adam and Christine Levin <levins_at_westnet.com>
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 15:35:04 EDT
Ok, further thanks to:
"Riddoch, John E SITI-ITDSEP3" <John.E.Riddoch@is.shell.com>
Joon Martin Hansen <joon.martin.hansen@eterra.no>
Al Hopper <al@logical-approach.com>
"Mortensen, Henrik" <henrik.mortensen@csfb.com>
Peter Stokes <peter@ashlyn.co.uk>
"Sharpe, John" <John.Sharpe@vuinteractive.com>
Jay Lessert <jayl@accelerant.net>

The deal is, not only do you need to check jumper J3001, but a certain rev
of the OBP is required, as well as a certain rev of the motherboard.

What we ended up doing was just swapping the hard drives in the machines.
This worked, thankfully.

Check
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Devices/CPU_Module/UltraSPARC_400MHz_UltraII.html
for more details.

-Adam


On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Adam and Christine Levin wrote:
>
> Thanks to:
> Charles Rawls <crawls@tgix.com>
> Paul Galjan <galjanpa@cmr.gov>
> "Moore, L. Bryan" <lbmoore@scrippsops.com>
>
> There's a jumper, J3001, that needs to be switched for the CPU speed.
>
> However, when I switched it and installed the 400MHz, the OBP banner
> reports 250MHz.
>
> I wonder if this system is too old to make use of a 400?  Any additional
> thoughts?
>
> One response said that you need minimum:
> CPU board 501-3132-13
> POST > 3.3.8
> OBP > 3.12 V10
>
> -Adam
>
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Adam and Christine Levin wrote:
> > We're currently moving some hardware around, and I've got two E250s open
> > on the floor of the systems room.  We swapped 2x300MHz UltraSPARC II procs
> > out of one and into the other.  The other had 1x400MHz UltraSPARC II.  The
> > first system refuses to boot with the 1x400 -- it boots fine with 2x300,
> > but when I swap in the 1x400, the power comes on, the drives spin up, and
> > nothing else happens.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > -Adam
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