DUAL CPU APICS CARD CANNOT FIND

[vdharia]

I am having a little problem. I have a Matsonic 7070SD dual p3 motherboard. Right now I have only one p3 cpu in it, and the other socket just has a terminator card. The manual says I need this thing called an APICS card that allows dual cpu function, there is a socket for it on my board, but I can't get a response from Matsonic nor find it on ebay. What do I do? Does anyone know where to get it or have it? I really want to squeeze more out of this older computer by adding another 100 dollar p3 cpu and doing some smp.

Thanks

 

[Lord Evermore]

It's APIC, not APICS. Stands for Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller. It allows the single set of IRQs to work with two different processors (there's apparently a local APIC on the processors and an I/O APIC which is this card). I don't know where you can get one.