Im in the process of building a computer, and until my next payday, i want to go with setting everything up, I have 1 chip for my motherboard, but not the other. Is it possible for me to just put the chip in the cpu1 slot and boot it up? thanks!
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Im in the process of building a computer, and until my next payday, i want to go with setting everything up, I have 1 chip for my motherboard, but not the other. Is it possible for me to just put the chip in the cpu1 slot and boot it up? thanks!
There shouldn't be any problem with that. You might possibly have to set some BIOS settings but I would expect it to be very straightforward.
hmmm, give it a try, the worst that could happen is that it wouldn't turn on. i think
I think Xeon systems might need a terminator "chip"...I don't know about the newer Xeons, maybe that's just for the older ones.
From my knowledge Athlon MP systems can boot fine with one chip.
It will be fine. What kind of motherboard is it?
My dual PIII MBs have always come with the terminator in the second slot, my dual Athlon MP MBs don't, and shouldn't need it, but I haven't needed to run one of them with only one CPU.