Hello Managers -
I am interested in upgrading the processor on my
alpha EB 21164(1 cpu currently 333 MHz).
Information on the invoice makes me think that the
mother board can handle a 500 Mhz processor.
Does anyone know of a way to determine what processor
speeds the mother board can handle?(I have a request
into the manufacturer). If it is possible to upgrade to
a faster processor, what are the other upgrades I need to consider?
I have searched the archives, and have not found a summary
that answers my questions completely. I figure that a firmware
upgrade may be necessary, and I will have to boot off genvmunix and
rebuild the kernel after . Is there anything else to consider?
Boot Information from DIA is shown after my name.
We do not have a service contract, so how wise is it for me to
change the processor myself? Just wondering how easy(or difficult
the task is)?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Sincerely,
Ron Bowman
Techno-Sciences, Inc.
rdbowma_at_tsi.clemson.edu
864-646-4028
Searchable Archive URLs for Alpha-osf-manager:
http://www-archive.ornl.gov:8000/ (simple search)
http://www-archive.ornl.gov:8000/archive/power.htm (more detailed)
DIA INFORMATION:
Logging OS 2. Digital UNIX
System Architecture 2. Alpha
Event sequence number 0.
Timestamp of occurrence 07-JAN-1999 10:43:53
Host name tsi
System type register x0000001A EB164 or AlphaPC164
Number of CPUs (mpnum) x00000001
CPU logging event (mperr) x00000000
Event validity 1. O/S claims event is valid
Event severity 5. Low Priority
Entry type 300. Start-Up ASCII Message Type
SWI Minor class 9. ASCII Message
SWI Minor sub class 3. Startup
ASCII Message
Alpha boot: available memory from 0x9e8000 to 0xff16000
Digital UNIX V4.0B (Rev. 564); Sat Feb 14 12:25:38 EST 1998
physical memory = 256.00 megabytes.
available memory = 245.81 megabytes.
using 975 buffers containing 7.61 megabytes of memory
Alpha 21164 Evaluation Board 333 MHz system
Firmware revision: 4.8
Digital UNIX PALcode version 1.21
pci0 at nexus
tu0: DECchip 21041: Revision: 1.1
tu0 at pci0 slot 5
tu0: DEC TULIP (10Mbps) Ethernet Interface, hardware address:
00-40-05-2D-90-5A
tu0: console mode: selecting 10BaseT (UTP) port: half duplex
trio0 at pci0 slot 7
trio0: S3 Trio64 (SVGA) Plug-N-Play, 2.0 Mb
isa0 at pci0
gpc0 at isa0
ace0 at isa0
ace1 at isa0
lp0 at isa0
fdi0 at isa0
fd0 at fdi0 unit 0
psiop0 at pci0 slot 9
siop_pci_initialize: Warning - Using unsupported 53c875 scsi chip
Loading SIOP: script 4051cd00, reg 82861000, data 40524d00
scsi0 at psiop0 slot 0
rz1 at scsi0 target 1 lun 0 (LID=0) (SEAGATE ST19101W 0014)
(Wide16)
rz4 at scsi0 target 4 lun 0 (LID=1) (TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5401TA 3605)
tz5 at scsi0 target 5 lun 0 (LID=2) (EXABYTE EXB-8505 0051)
kernel console: trio0
dli: configured
Received on Thu Jan 07 1999 - 22:07:30 NZDT