Stumped with a MS-6135 Dual Slot2 Xeon. Can't use more than 1 CPU at a time!

Hi.
I have a MS-6135 board and I am not having much luck getting it to work.   Basically both windows and Linux both say that the Board itself is not dual capable and just 'see' one of the CPUs installed.   On linux, during the bootup on a 2.6.13 kernel with SMP support it says the board does not support SMP.  On windows, I downloaded sisoft sandra and it says that the board is not MP compatible.   This is the same if i have both in the board, or if i run one CPU and a terminator.   When i tried the terminator route, i did it twice, once with each CPU and it was able to boot fine with either. 
The CPUs that I have are P3Xeon 500/512.   One of them is SL2XU and the other is SL3D9.  The steppings are different, but apparently they were both pulled from the same compaq server (I got them from ebay).  At first i was thinking that this might be my problem.  But when i run my other dual Xeon board (intell C440GX+) with a single CPU, linux clearly identifies it as dual capable, but just running a single CPU. 
In all cases, the bootup screen identifies corretly what processors are installed.  So when they are both installed it says Xeon x2, and when only one it identifies as Xeon.   The hardware monitor also gives me a temperature for all installed CPUs.   Interestingly enough, so does lm_sensors in linux. 
Some things i've tried:
 - All the different bios versions on the MSI website, including the v2.0 bios thats actually for the later revison board.   
 - Swapping the CPUs around.   
 - I also tried a pair of P3Xeon 700/1024 'cascades' from my other machine, but it won't post with them either.   
Incidentally, with all my flashing of the bios, it now only detects 256Mb of the 1024 that i have installed (4x256 PC133), and i would quite like to get back my memory as well!  Next step will be to try going back to version 1.3 of the bios. 
Other things of note.  I'm using a 300W ATX PSU.   Right now i'm just testing so apart from a 20Gb hard drive and a very low end 8mb graphics card there is nothing else apart from a couple of fans using the power.   This is plugged into the first ATX connector on the board (closest to CPUs).
In Linux, i've also tried a lot of kernel options with no luck, for example 'append="noapic apci=noirq".  Linux is the operating system that I want to use, but I installed XP on another disk to see if was just a bad linux configuration that was causing this probloem. 
Basically, Linux finds a local APIC, finds CPU0, but then says 'SMP motherboard not detected.  Brought up 1 CPUs'
Any help would be greatly appreciated.   
I'm at    right now.

If i could work out that i could address both CPUs once i ifx the bios then I would order a BIOS upgrade chip.   But right now i would prefer not to spend additional money unless i have good confidence that this would be the case, especially as I understand the 550mhz unit is the fastest one that the board supports?

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