Missing Microcode for installed CPU's? Tiger i7505

I am having a problem with the Tiger i7505 board. The error message I am
getting is "Missing Microcode for installed CPU's." The bios version I have
installed is 1.01. The CPU's are 2.66 Ghz Xeons. They are both the same
processors. I would say that this board does not support that processor,
but clearly it is supposed to according to this graph :

Tiger i7505

S2668

2.0*, 2.4* - 3.06 GHz*
1.8* - 3.0 GHz*
3.06*



or if you prefer, http://www.tyan.com/support/html/cpu_xeon_p4.html

I am a bit baffled as to what the problem could be.

When booting it does show the status of CPU 2 and not the status of CPU 1.

Thanks,

Josh

Hey Josh,

Wow! Amazingly I have the exact same system configuration as you (dual 2.66Ghz
Xeons, Tiger i7505 board [S2668], and the latest v 1.01 BIOS)... and yes
I have the exact same error.

My boot eror is as follows, after the two beep code:

"Missing Microcode Update for installed CPUs"

When I hit the F1 key the system boots normally from that point on... and
everything is working perfectly (so far)... I installed the latest Intel
Frequency Id Utility and it finds both processors correctly, and both are
shown to have the same steppings, as expected...

I think the Missing Microcode Update message may be a bogus error?

I also ran several benchmarks (Indy3d, SPEC ViewPerf, etc.) and the numbers
look very good for this system with a Wildcat VP970 videoo card...

I will contact Tyan Tech Support to see if they know about this error message.

Regards,

~Matt Verona
mattverona DeleteThis @houston.rr.com
Sugarland Software, Inc.
Sugar Land, Texas
USA

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"Josh Jost" <no DeleteThis @no.com> wrote:
 >I am having a problem with the Tiger i7505 board. The error message I am
 >getting is "Missing Microcode for installed CPU's." The bios version I
have
 >installed is 1.01. The CPU's are 2.66 Ghz Xeons. They are both the same
 >processors. I would say that this board does not support that processor,
 >but clearly it is supposed to according to this graph :
 >
 > Tiger i7505
 >
 > S2668
 >
 > 2.0*, 2.4* - 3.06 GHz*
 > 1.8* - 3.0 GHz*
 > 3.06*
 >
 >
 >
<font color=purple> >or if you prefer, <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.tyan.com/support/html/cpu_xeon_p4.html</font" target="_blank">http://www.tyan.com/support/html/cpu_xeon_p4.html</font</a>>
 >
 >I am a bit baffled as to what the problem could be.
 >
 >When booting it does show the status of CPU 2 and not the status of CPU
1.
 >
 >Thanks,
 >
 >Josh
 >
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