Reply 40 of 44, by phosgene
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wrote:Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I don't really want to keep buying 1130CA cards until I find one which works, so I gave up until more information surfaces.
The ARO compatibility information seems pretty sparse to say the least. Your Dell Precision 410 workstation does appear in the compatibility list for the ARO-1130U2, but not for the ARO-1130CA or SA. So maybe you need a U2 card?
My motherboard doesn't appear anywhere in the compatibility list, and I can't find any information on the Adaptec AIC-7895P chipset that is present on the board.
wrote:What prevents consumer Windows versions from running on it?
I think what he/she means is that there's not a whole lot of software outside of the server/workstation market that uses Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP).
Windows 98 doesn't support SMP, but it'll run fine on this system; it just doesn't detect the second CPU. Windows NT & 2000 both support SMP, but there's not a whole of software that uses it. However, you can set the processor affinity so that different processes run on different CPUs; so you could have one application running on CPU0 and a different application running on CPU1.