Lee Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 Hi guys I have an Asus P2BD running a PIII 500 and i have Just come across an identical processor. So I thought "what the hell" and I installed it as a second CPU. My question is how do I get XP (Pro) to recognise it. There are 2 CPU's in device manager, but I read somewhere that it should show up in task manager also? I know I could re-install windows but I dont want to do that if I can help it Can anyone help? Thanks :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted March 24, 2003 MVC Share Posted March 24, 2003 Once it sees the second processor, you should be able to go to device manager - and under you computer, change it from the uniprocessor to multiprocessor. Right click the uniprocessor - as shown in picture, what options do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAcOdIn Veteran Posted March 24, 2003 Veteran Share Posted March 24, 2003 I could be mistaken but don't you have to reinstall windows to switch the HAL from uni to SMP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted March 24, 2003 MVC Share Posted March 24, 2003 I do not think so - I have not had to test this in awhile. But I just did a win2k machine awhile back, and did not have to reinstall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilotX Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 You will have to reinstall windows, the support for Dual Processors is added in the initial setup phase and cant be added once running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 Hi guysI have an Asus P2BD running a PIII 500 and i have Just come across an identical processor. So I thought "what the hell" and I installed it as a second CPU. My question is how do I get XP (Pro) to recognise it. There are 2 CPU's in device manager, but I read somewhere that it should show up in task manager also?? I know I could re-install windows but I dont want to do that if I can help it Can anyone help? Thanks?:D:D If you see two CPU's in the device manager, yet are using ACPI Uniprocessor PC, right click on that and select "update driver" then click on "INSTALL From a list or specific location )advanced)" then click "next" then select "Do Not Search, i will choose the driver to install" then click "next" then from the list there change the driver to be "ACPI Multiprocessor PC" if availible. if you don't see it you may in fact have to re-install windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAcOdIn Veteran Posted March 24, 2003 Veteran Share Posted March 24, 2003 I think you can make it say it's SMP but it won't do the necessary changes. Anyways though, if you can infact do it then xStainDx's instructions are correct. But I want to add that if you DO have to reinstall, that you can just do a repair install, which will leave all your applications and files intact just reinstall windows itself and that may work. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 reinstall windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizkit Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 i think that you need to re-install. plus, i think that if you do re-install, it might set it up so that it will run better with the 2 procs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted March 24, 2003 Author Share Posted March 24, 2003 Thanks for the replies guys I think it looks like ill have to re-install windows :no: Thanks anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted March 25, 2003 MVC Share Posted March 25, 2003 Thanks for the replies guysI think it looks like ill have to re-install windows :no: Thanks anyway I really do not think you need to do that - I know I added cpu to win2k without reinstall. So how would it be that win2k can add 2nd proc without reinstall - but need to do in xp? Only dual machine I have sitting here is my linux server - not sure I want to take it down to test with. Pretty sure I have some old dual junk boxes at work. Think I might have do a little testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted March 25, 2003 Author Share Posted March 25, 2003 I ran a repair last night and it seems to have pickled up the second CPU now. And it seems a little faster! Thanks for all your help anyway Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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