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Started by Maven, March 15, 2005, 08:27:24 AM

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Maven

March 15, 2005, 08:27:24 AM
Why would a dell server have a PSN enabled in the bios? Apparently it's greyed out so you cannot alter it. I thought that was always suppose to be disabled.

Mark_Larson

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March 15, 2005, 03:52:47 PM
Quote from: Maven on March 15, 2005, 08:27:24 AM
Why would a dell server have a PSN enabled in the bios? Apparently it's greyed out so you cannot alter it. I thought that was always suppose to be disabled.

  PSN's only existed on P3's.  We started shipping our BIOSes with PSNs disabled in the BIOS if the processor was a P3.  Is your server system a P3?  If not that's probably why it is greyed out.  Having it enabled on a non-P3 system has no effect.
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March 15, 2005, 06:10:13 PM
Quote from: Mark_Larson on March 15, 2005, 03:52:47 PM
Quote from: Maven on March 15, 2005, 08:27:24 AM
Why would a dell server have a PSN enabled in the bios? Apparently it's greyed out so you cannot alter it. I thought that was always suppose to be disabled.

  PSN's only existed on P3's.  We started shipping our BIOSes with PSNs disabled in the BIOS if the processor was a P3.  Is your server system a P3?  If not that's probably why it is greyed out.  Having it enabled on a non-P3 system has no effect.

From what I understand it was on a xeon server so I didn't know.

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