Dual Processor setup

[Guest]

I have a dual motherboard and am about to purchase my second processor. I am running both windows ME and win2000. I know that the dual processor will only benefit 2000, but is there anything I have to do in 2000 to let it know that I have the second CPU in there? Or do I just put the CPU in and that's it?

 

[Guest]

A friend of mine has a duel CPU system. He tells me (from what I remember) that you go into the Device manager and modify the "computer" driver. For exaple under computer it says for me "Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) PC", in my case I would have to change that driver to "ACPI Multiprocessor PC".
My friend did not mention if there is any other modifacation to make. I hope that helped!

If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards!

 

[hypnotic_kumquat]

Just slap it in and turn it on. 2K'll know it's there.

"Let's take the warning labels off everything and let natural selection clean the gene pool!"

 

[Guest]

No, you can't just plug the second processor and all will be well. I know because i have tried it myself. The reason is that the HAL (hardware abstraction layer) in w2k needs to be updated.

What you have to do is either rebuild w2k from scratch or use the w2k resource kit. I don't know if updating the ACPI driver will work, becuase i didn't try it (i didn't know about it at the time).

However, i do know where you can look in w2k and see if w2k is using both cpus properly -
GO to system properties, click on the advanced tab, then click on the environment variables button. Under the system variables bit, there is a field called NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS. Obviously it is going to be 1 or 2. If it says 2, then alls well. If it says 1, then you will have to do what i mentioned above.

Good luck.

 

[hypnotic_kumquat]

I should clarify myself. On *most* newer motherboards 2k should identify the board's dual-processor capability. There's an article in the April issue of Win2000 magazine that discusses this if you can get your hands on a copy.

"Let's take the warning labels off everything and let natural selection clean the gene pool!"

 

[jclw]

- Right-click on "My Computer", pick "properties"
* "System Properties" window opens
- Under the "Hardware" tab pick "Device Manager"
* "Device Manager" window opens
- Expand the "Computer" tree by picking the [+] next to it
- Right-click on the branch (probably called ACPI Uniprocessor PC), pick "properties"
* "ACPI Uniprocessor PC properties" window opens
- Under the "Driver" tab pick "Update Driver..."
* "Upgrade Device Driver" window opens
- pick "next"
- select "Display a list of the known drivers..." and pick "next"
- select "Show all hardware of this device class", then select "(Standard computers) -> ACPI Multiprocessor PC", then pick "next"
- pick "next"
* copies files
- pick "finish"
- it'll restart your computer

After rebooting open your task manager and make sure you have two CPU usage graphs.