Now I'm off to get some books on SQL so I can install Emerald and try to
make a good go of it.
At 04:11 AM 5/14/97 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Joe Bissot wrote:
>>
>> I want to add a second processor to my main server. It already has a
>> dual
>> capable motherboard. Under 3.51 adding the second cpu would create an
>> instant blue screen of death, you would then have to upgrade
>> (reinstall) to
>> change the hal. Is 4.0 the same way?
>
>I just recently learned a lot about this subject. I was testing a DUAL
>P166,
>and put a lab machine's (a single p100) guts into it. Without doing
>anything
>else, I was able to boot it as a single processor p166. Now the system
>parition is a FAT Patition (which later turned out to save my rear).
>
>You have to replace the ntoskrnl.exe and hal.dll files with the
>respective
>files of your SMP motherboard. For mine, this was ntkrnlmp.exe and
>halmps.exe. Once I got these files copied to the previous names, the
>second processor came right up. I was booted to DOS when I did this.
>The uptomp.exe file that comes with the resource kit does this same
>thing, just behind you back.
>
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>Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea.com)
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