Intel Engineering Sample Itanium(TM) Based System

[Xaar]

Hello!

I got an Itanium based computer system (many thanks to JAC for his excellent help! ). It's an Intel Engineering Sample of the later Itanium workstation (sold as: Dell Precision Workstation 730, Fujitsu-Siemens Celsius 880 (D1246), HP i2000, IBM IntelliStation Z Pro 6894 or SGI Silicon Graphics 750).

The workstation runs very well. It starts up and says that it has two Itanium 2M processors installed, clocked at 533 MHz.. Unfortunately there are not two Itanium 533/2M processors installed, but two Itanium 733/2M (sSPEC: QBF1 ES).

Now I tried to test my other three Itanium processors (one 733/2M QBF1 ES, two 733/2M SL4LT). They all run fine, but they all were only clocked at 533 MHz

Does someone has an idea why they are clocked only at 533 MHz? I think that this "problem" exists only, because the system is an Engineering Sample system.. Has anyone of you ever used an Itanium (not Itanium II!) based system?

Best regards, Xaar.

[JAC]

Happy to help, it was a big parcel.

Is there anything special on the motherboard? What is unique about an Engineering Sample system? I had never seen one complete like that before.

[Mixeur]

Look for the magic jumper !

[Xaar]

Well the layout of the mainboard differs slightly from the normal released mainboard. I found only two manuals for this system (HP i2000 an IBM IntelliStation Z Pro 6894). There are differences between the mainboards of the HP (has no jumpers belonging to CPU stuff) and the IBM workstation (which has jumpers for FSB selection). But both mainboards differ from mine..
The second difference to a normal production system are the ES chipset chips There are a few ES chips on the several boards.

@ Mixeur: I guess that there is a jumper for that, but which is it? And which combination is the correct for a 733 MHz setting? I found 3 "unknown" jumpers. I think these should have something to do with the FSB selection or the multiplicator selection, but I do not know it exactly..

Best regards, Xaar.