[wplug] found only one cpu in a dual cpus computer

[Beth Lynn]

Hello,

While the problem very well could be in the kernel configuration, did you 
ever consider this could be a hardware problem?

I only say this because I have had the pleasure of experiencing multiple 
shady whitebox dealers....

Please look inside the box itself and check that you have two processors.

If you do, don't stop there. Double check the motherboard manual to make 
sure that it can take dual 2600's.

One time I saw a system that was a dual Athlon but it if you wanted the
motherboard to see both processors you had to use two 1700 processors. And
guess what, system was shipped with two 2100's. The system still booted 
but the bios would only see one processor. I had to RTFM to figure that 
one out. Lesson learned - do not trust the whitebox vendor to know how to 
build systems correctly.

Please check your bios. Does your bios see two processors? It may be 
disabled there. Also check if there's a flash for your bios. This may be a 
known bug.

I'm sorry ranting on whitebox vendors. Just today I was working on a whitebox 
with an Athlon processor where the processor fan was the only thing cooling
the system.

I have seen vendors ship 50% less cpus and 50% less ram. Too often I will
see misconfigured systems and shoddy workmanship. I've also seen systems 
where the processors were not secured to the socket.

Unfortunately I have witnessed too many times hardware vendors blaming a 
user's choice of Linux when users complain. Knowing your hardware is your 
best defense against this sort of nonsense.

Thanks,
Beth Lynn

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Deliang Shi wrote:

> Bought a dual cpus computer,but only found one cpu by
> using top command in RH9.0. Does anybody know how to
> configure it? The hard drive is from a computer having
> only one cpu and I didn't reinstall the OS.
>
> CPU: AMD Athlon MP 2600+
> Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-7DPXDW-P
>
> Thanks a lot.
> Deliang
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