2460 mod 2400XP strange behavior ... any ideas

External Since: Sep 14, 2003 Posts: 4

Hi,

I'm using 2 XP2400 Tbred2 with the SMP conductor mod.
I's using a high quality silver conductor and did the mode very carefully. I
also spent two HQ cooler.
After the mod the 2460 detects 2 x 2000 MHz CPU's but with the current bios
1.05 it says the the CPU's are running in an unsupported mode and in Windowx
XP it shows only one CPU.
After that, I read about 500 posts at 2CPU.COM and downgraded to 1.03 which
didn't boot at all with 2 mod XP 2400.
It worked with each of the one CPU's (only one CPU pluged in).
Then I upgraded to the BIOS 1.04 version and that recognizes both CPU's at
ATHLON 2000MHz and also no further waring of unsupported CPU mode.
Bottom line is, that at least my 2460 with my TBred2 XP 2400 runs only with
the BIOS 1.04 neither with 1.03 = no boot nor with the 1.05 = warning
unsupported mode and switch off one.
Some people a claiming the conductor might be bad and that's the reason for
the waring but why does it then work with 1.04? Is the conductor for BIOS
1.04 sufficient but not for the CPU determination in BIOS 1.05???
I've also heard that the V1.04 BIOS has bugs and 1.04.xx should be use (but
this was never an official released BIOS version).

Any ideas how I can use the XP 2400+ withe the up to date BIOS 1.05?

regards
Heinz

External Since: Sep 14, 2003 Posts: 13

Hey I just posted about this very problem..
I have been running 2400 mp's since last Christmas
without problems - maybe 1-2 times I saw the unsupported mode..
Now, tonight, I'm getting it non-stop and of course only utilizing 1
cpu..

I'm running 1.05 which, like I said, worked fine...I did reinstall
windows 2k sp3 2 weeks ago but the problem has just
started tonight....

Thinking about switching cpu's anyway as cpu0 gets way more activity
than cpu1 - even out the lifespan. Also, some new artic silver might
be a good idea, along with blowing out the whole computer

maybe I will try the 1.04 bios...

sorry I'm not answering your q's, just throwing my 2 cents in....

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:06:45 +0200, "heinz" <heinzv RemoveThis @gmx.at.NOSPAM>
wrotf:

>Hi,
>
>I'm using 2 XP2400 Tbred2 with the SMP conductor mod.
>I's using a high quality silver conductor and did the mode very carefully. I
>also spent two HQ cooler.
>After the mod the 2460 detects 2 x 2000 MHz CPU's but with the current bios
>1.05 it says the the CPU's are running in an unsupported mode and in Windowx
>XP it shows only one CPU.
>After that, I read about 500 posts at 2CPU.COM and downgraded to 1.03 which
>didn't boot at all with 2 mod XP 2400.
>It worked with each of the one CPU's (only one CPU pluged in).
>Then I upgraded to the BIOS 1.04 version and that recognizes both CPU's at
>ATHLON 2000MHz and also no further waring of unsupported CPU mode.
>Bottom line is, that at least my 2460 with my TBred2 XP 2400 runs only with
>the BIOS 1.04 neither with 1.03 = no boot nor with the 1.05 = warning
>unsupported mode and switch off one.
>Some people a claiming the conductor might be bad and that's the reason for
>the waring but why does it then work with 1.04? Is the conductor for BIOS
>1.04 sufficient but not for the CPU determination in BIOS 1.05???
>I've also heard that the V1.04 BIOS has bugs and 1.04.xx should be use (but
>this was never an official released BIOS version).
>
>Any ideas how I can use the XP 2400+ withe the up to date BIOS 1.05?
>
>regards
>Heinz
>