[vox-tech] How badly screwed am I?

[Peter Jay Salzman]

i unplugged the processors from my dual celery 550 to change the fans
which were failing, and i get this same message too.  pressing F1 works
to get the machine past this bios message.

so if anyone knows the answer, please post it!  i'm interested in the
answer myself.

pete


begin Richard S. Crawford <rscrawford@mossroot.com> 
> In our corner of Dixon, the power goes out if someone looks at a power
> line funny.  It happened earlier today, just a blink in the power.
> 
> I was away from my computer at the moment.  When I got back, I saw that
> my computer had been forced to reboot.  The boot process had stalled,
> though, with the following message:
> 
> CPU IS UNWORKABLE OR HAS CHANGED -- Please rescan now
> 
> (It's a dual-processor system)
> 
> I pressed F1 and was able to finish booting just fine.  The computer
> runs both win2k and Linux without any change in performance from before,
> and there is no sign that the computer is slower or not working or
> anything.  What does this mean, and how do I fix it?  I am by no stretch
> of the imagination a hardware guy; I can hook up a printer and install a
> CD-ROM drive and a couple of memory chips if absolutely necessary, but I
> much prefer not to mess with my computer's guts.
> 
> Any thoughts?  Prayers?