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Moving drive from single G5 to dual G5
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jasonsRX7
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Apr 28, 2005, 11:48 AM
 
I have bartered my way into swapping my single G5 1.6 for a dual 1.8... If I move my drive right into the new system (and vice versa) will everything still work, or will I need to reload the OS in order to enable SMP?
     
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Apr 28, 2005, 11:59 AM
 
It'll all work.
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Apr 28, 2005, 11:59 AM
 
Everything should Just Work™.

You can fire up the CPU monitor in Activity Monitor to be sure, but the OS seems to auto-detect hardware, and activate accordingly at boot.

For example, I installed OS 10.3 on my iPod, and have booted several computers from it. It sees both CPUs on the dualies, Airport and bluetooth on the Powerbook, etc.

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Apr 28, 2005, 12:21 PM
 
Sweet, thanks...
     
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Apr 30, 2005, 05:30 PM
 
Yep, did the swap today and everything just worked! Off to test the New Dualness and see how much faster it is.
     
   
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