I have three SUN Ultra 40 Workstation that cannot be updated to Windows 10. How can I update the AM

user7121240

I have three SUN Ultra 40 Workstations, which have run quite well using 64 bit Windows 7 Enterprise.  Unfortunately these cannot be updated to Windows 10.

It appears to be BIOS related (my guess here) and I'm looking for BIOS updates for this SUN hardware.

Has anyone successfully moved a SUN Ultra 40 Workstation to WIndows 10?

Here are some system details:

System Manufacturer    Sun Microsystems

System Model    Sun Ultra 40 Workstation

System Type    x64-based PC

Processor    Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280, 2400 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)

Processor    Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280, 2400 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)

BIOS Version/Date    Phoenix Technologies Ltd. 1.30, 5/18/2006

SMBIOS Version    2.4

Windows Directory    C:\Windows

System Directory    C:\Windows\system32

Boot Device    \Device\HarddiskVolume1

Locale    United States

Hardware Abstraction Layer    Version = "6.1.7601.24441"

Here is the error given.  I cannot find the BIOS updates for the SUN Ultra 40 workstations on this site.  Are they available?

Nik

Hi.

You can not install Windows 10 on this CPU.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-windows_install/windows-81-refuses-to-install-on-amd-optero…

Windows 10 require support exchange128 instruction set (CMPXCHG16b)

Opteron 280 do not support this commands.

Regards,

  Nik

user7121240

Thank you Nik!  This is tremendously helpful.  My sincere thanks for this help and link.

That's the final answer.  We'll migrate these to a LINUX variant.  I really like the hardware.