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Advanced Windows 2000 Installer Problem (involves dual processor)

BrotherRaven

Junior Member
Hello all. I have a Gigabyte 6VXDC7. It is a dual socket 370 motherboard based on the Via Chipset. However, I have a problem. After movin home from college, I cannot get the machine stable. Here are the specs:

Dual P3 866 (133 FSB)
768 Megs Ram PC133 (3x 256 mb dimm)
Geforce 2 64mb
SMC NIC
SB Live
Adaptec 29160 (64bit SCSI 160 card that is 32 bit compatible)
3x 9gig 10k rpm Seagate
UltraPlex Wide (40x SCSI CD-Rom)
PlexWriter 12/4/32 (SCSI CD-RW)
Toshiba 10x DVD (SCSI).
I have the newest bios revision.
Floppy, IDE, Parallel, Serial controllers disabled

In earlier May, I flew home from NY to CA from college. I disassembled my machine and put it in pieces in my carry on. When I assembled my machine back I got the following blue screen:

0x0000009C (0x00000001, 0x00000000, 0xB2000000, 0x00000115)
MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION

Somehow, after a few days, I was able to convince windows 2000 to install. Just yeasturday, I realized that windows 2000 had not detected my dual processor configuration. So I attempted to reinstall. Once again getting the same error. I believe that perhaps my motherboard is bad and no longer can correctly operate in dual processor configuration. I am hoping this is not the case. Has anybody experienced this problem before or has suggesstions on ways I can determine if my motherboard is truely at fault. I have done extensive testing of all the components seperately (ram, cpus, cards) and everything works correctly. In fact, running 1 single cpu works just fine.

Brother Raven
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ghiocd@rpi.edu
 
Apart from the dual cpu's not being detected does everything else work ok ?
games/apps etc ?
Sounds like you need to re-enable smp try HERE
hope this helps you out
 
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