On Saturday 31 December 2005 06:16 pm, Thomas Ilnseher wrote: > The Other schrieb: > >I bought a recycled HP x4000 Workstation with dual Intel Xeon > >processors and Intel 860 Chipset. (Came with no manuals or any > >software.) > > Maybe it is. > It is if the XEON's are new enough. > > BUT: the 860 is an pretty old intel chipset (iirc the professional > version of the 850), so chances very are high that your XEONS are > pretty old and do _not_ support 64bit. > > if your xeons have less than 2.8 GHz, they are for sure not 64bit > capable. Hello Thomas, Thanks you very much for your reply. The Xeon's are 1.8GHz, the system was first introduced in 2001, and your analysis leads me to believe it's a 32bit system. You've been most helpful, and saved me lots of time from being wasted. Best Regards, Stephen.
