jwaldon 0 Posted July 31, 2000 I have seven Dual and Quad Processor systems. After the install process of Windows 2000 Standard Server, when you are told to reboot, the system hangs. I have determined that if you remove the second processor and install it works ok. The vendor is telling me that these systems will not run Win 2000. They say it is a BIOS issue or something and they can't or won't do anything about it. Can someone tell me if this is a true statement about the older Pentium Pro and PII Intel motherboards? These systems are two to three years old. Share this post Link to post
Uncut_Diamond 0 Posted August 3, 2000 Having no clue what hardware is in your system it is hard to say for sure whether or not you should be able to run Win2k on Dual/Quad CPU's. I do know that if it works in single CPU and not multi CPU it could be the ACPI function. Do you know if the mobo's support ACPI fully and whether or not you have the option to enable/disable it? I know that I have an older dual PII system that refuses to run Win2k properly. I was constantly getting BSOD's. That problem was all caused because of ACPI. My cheap mobo did not have a function to disable ACPI. So whenever I tried to run Win2k as MPS Multicpu, it would try and manage the IRQ's (IE setting my NIC to IRQ19) but couldn't because of the halfway support of ACPI on my older mobo. If I could have disabled ACPI in the bios, I think I maybe could have gotten rid of at least a few of the BSOD's, however, since the ACPI wouldn't work with Win2k and I couldn't disable it either, I gave up and put Linux on it. I then got an Abit BP6 with dual celeron 500@600Mhz. Now everything is great. Hope this helps. Share this post Link to post
