Two identical servers and the other is not supported

I have pretty old xseries336 with Intel Xeon 3.2 GHz server. During installation it is said that he needs CPU 64 bit with LAHF and SAHF support.

I understand that, because it is very old CPU, and I heard that esxi 5.0 needs support VT - x, which does not have this CPU.

However, I second the same server with the same processor and BIOS version on which I have installed ESXi 5.0 without any problem at all.

I can confirm it works on Xseries336 with Intel Xeon 3.2 GHz. (also attached) Screenshot:

http://ImageShack.us/f/820/esx5.jpg/

Does anyone have any ideas as to what might or what might be the difference between two supposedly identical servers?

janojan wrote:

Is it possible to fix this?

I just updated the system with UpdateXpress tool and still no luck.

According to the update of the Intel specification, it is possible for the BIOS to provide a fix for this erratum.  However, I guess that UpdateXpress will have flashed the latest BIOS.  Unfortunately, there is no software workaround solution in ESXi 5.0 for this situation.

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