Hi guys, I am trying to upgrade my HP Proliant ML350 G3 from a single to a dual Xeon CPU and cannot find any documentation on how to perform this upgrade. Both CPUs are exacly the same in speed and are supported by the ML350. I have installed the PPMs but cannot get the machine to recognize both CPUs on boot up. Any help would be much appreciated. Joe

You will continue to get internal error until you add memory. It shouldn't even boot without RAM.

Check event viewer for errors and warnings. Plus monitor performance in task manager, especially for 100% CPU usage.

Best practice is to utilize HP Insight Manager for possible hardware problems.

Try to disable boot to other device on your bios setting.

Make sure that your Smart Raid is set on the first boot device.

HEAT, is a big factor. That is a mighty Xeon Server Quad Core CPU and when it gets to work it gives off heat.

You need to make sure that the chassis is well ventilated, install some fans to keep it cool. Clean the heatsink and surrounds of dust. Use a vacuum cleaner.
Also scan the system for Malware and Virues, these pieces of code simply get the computer to do a whole lot of nothing usefull to you. Find them and delete them. Usually a good cleaning will get it operating efficiently and effectively, giving you a responsive and productive computer system.

Take care!
damnor01

Sounds like the power supply has gone bad on some outputs - most likely the 3.3 volt source.

nice servers I have 2 myself HP has this problem flashing the bios to a CPU so changing you will need to reflash the bios the flacky server remove the CPU' s
clean the surface reset the cpus apply new heatsink compound check every connecting up plg reseet theserver should become stable if you memory is okay. love my cranky HP servers and rely on my Dell servers never go down. good luck I will never do any HP i have one of the famous 9000 seies laptops was promised warranty still no warranty so i refuse to buy any HP products or recomend to anyone the older servers still work fine good going HP i still say good things about the older servers only doing upgrades is not so easy reflash the bios to upgrade my friend

maybe your system needs a bios upgrade before it runs with the cpu... happened to me once too, although with a different system. Give it a shot.

As standard it has 1x Xeon single core 3.2GHz with a 2nd free CPU Socket

I know ATA disks are cheaper , but they don't last as long or are less reliable.

I do not recommend mixing SCSI and ATA .

Use one or the other , not both.

Do not try , unless your server is non critical.
If it is non critical , why bother with server , a PC will do as well.

Thanks
David