Compaq Professional workstation 5000 cpu upgrade?

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Does anyone know if the bios of the Compaq professional workstation 5000 would support the Pentium II overdrive cpu? I've picked up a professional workstation for 30 bucks, and two Pentium II overdrive cpu's for 40, and I want to run the workstation 5000 with the dual Pentium II overdrive cpu's.

[edwin]

they are MP compatible. start with one, if it runs add the other one. you did get a VRM for the second CPU I hope?

Ok, so they're MP compatible, but do you know if it is compatible with the Pentium II overdrive, specifically? I haven't picked up the second VRM yet, I plan on running it with one P2 overdrive, if it works in the workstation 5000, then picking up a VRM and adding the second P2 overdrive.

[edwin]

edwin wrote:

they are MP compatible. start with one, if it runs add the other one. you did get a VRM for the second CPU I hope?

they as in the Pentium II Overdrive is MP compatible. Yes the DeskPro 5000 dual Socket 8 is MP compatible I hope. I cannot find specific info if the DeskPro 5000 PPro series run OK with the P2 Overdrive anywhere, no problems running them either, so you may have a chance.