January 30, 201412 yr DON'T DO THIS Recently I was searching the internet to see if my 3 year old CPU was 64bit. I came across a guy in a forum that said it was 64bit but the spec did not indicate it. This sprung my interest and conducted more defined searches and found out the the CPU was actually a dual core and one core was locked out. Now depending on what motherboard you have made it possible to unlock the second core. I played around with my BIOS and was able to do just that. I took a picture of before and after of you to behold. Not only does it indicate a different CPU it now depicts 64bit capable. Not really sure what that really means "Capable". See attachments Single Core before After unlocking the Dual core from BIOS Question: from what you see will this make me able to migrate to the 64bit unRaid when it is released?
January 31, 201412 yr Sempron 140 is 64 bit capable without unlocking the second core. The second core is locked for a reason. Semprons and Athlons are made from the same silicon wafers. Athlons has 2 cores that pass validation testing. Semprons only have one valid core. The second core failed some test. It may be something very esoteric that than a typical user will never encounter. It may crash very boot. Unlocking a core will not make the server more stable and is a bad idea. This will indicate if the system is 64 bit capable. cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -Gq "flags.* lm " && echo '64bit' || echo '32bit'
January 31, 201412 yr Author Thank You for you response. You are 100% correct on both fronts. I went back to test your commands and found that my server had crashed. It has always been stable. Also the command did as you stated that it is 64bit capable. Lesson learned
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