I found THIS at pcliquidator.com Would two different cpus work together? Let's say they are a pentium3 600mhz slot1 and a pentium3 socket370 600mhz.
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Nope! These boards are designed to run only 1 cpu at a time. Slot 1 or Socket 370 - Your choice... http://www.sysopt.com/images/ieimages/1999/09/5.gif
Nope. I've got a Tyan Trinity with both processor sockets, and I've built two other systems based on the DFI TA64-B Slot1/Socket370 mobo. While I never actually tried it, both manuals clearly state that it's either Slot 1 or Socket 370, but not both.
Agreed. My system here also has both slots. It's one or the other I'm afraid.
I wonder if this is hardware, or can be re-written through bios...
I'm not sure about that one, but I suspect it's hardware. Early revisions of the Trinity 400 didn't have a jumper to select which processor you were using, but the newer ones do, so does the DFI.
Dual-processor capability isn't in software, sorry. One needs an extra interrupt controller for that (an IO-APIC to be exact), and the mainboard designed to use it. This is substantially different from the single-processor approach.
Regards, Peter