[Info-vax] (topic change to rx2600)

[MG]

Op 7-jun-2016 om 08:58 schreef Hans Vlems:
> Did you encounter problems that the motherboard did
> not recognize the id's of the new cpu's and then fail
> to boot?

I have upgraded a number of rx2600s and rx2620s over the
years, back when I still owned and ran IA-64 hardware, and
I never had any problems with it.  (The processors in question
were "Madison", "Madison-9M" and "Montecito" [so-called 9000-
series] types, to be specific.)

The bulk of them even came from non-HP IA-64 systems, no
lock-ins, cross-platform incompatibilities, etc., fortunately,
interestingly, I guess, and above all... conveniently.

The only time I ran into such a problem was with an attempted
rx2600 System Board swap (I ran into and experienced roughly
what you described).  I found one cheaply once and I was
curious if perhaps my System Board was faulty, due to strange
and erratic behavior.  Later I, like you, swapped the
'original' back and used the remainder system board to part
together a whole new rx2600 from 'scrap'.  Apart from UUID
mismatches, I was still able to 'handcrank' that rx2600 up
and running.  I do not remember the details, but it was
possible, interestingly.  (It wasn't an ideal solution,
needless to say.)

  - MG