Removal of Processor

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Ladies and gents
I have a question about removal/addition of CPUs.
I was told that if I was to remove one of the CPUs from a W2K box then this
would screw up the OS.
Now that I have XP Pro around, are they are issues with removing or adding a
CPU at any time - and indeed was I told the truth about W2K, would it have
blown a gasket?
Does XP happily recognise the addition or removal of a CPU and carry on as
normal (well...slower/faster!)?
Thanks
Doug

 

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Hello

Your pc will work just fine,

Alvin


DougC wrote:

> Ladies and gents
> I have a question about removal/addition of CPUs.
> I was told that if I was to remove one of the CPUs from a W2K box then this
> would screw up the OS.
> Now that I have XP Pro around, are they are issues with removing or adding a
> CPU at any time - and indeed was I told the truth about W2K, would it have
> blown a gasket?
> Does XP happily recognise the addition or removal of a CPU and carry on as
> normal (well...slower/faster!)?
> Thanks
> Doug

 

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"DougC" <DougC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Ladies and gents
>I have a question about removal/addition of CPUs.
>I was told that if I was to remove one of the CPUs from a W2K box then this
>would screw up the OS.
>Now that I have XP Pro around, are they are issues with removing or adding a
>CPU at any time - and indeed was I told the truth about W2K, would it have
>blown a gasket?
>Does XP happily recognise the addition or removal of a CPU and carry on as
>normal (well...slower/faster!)?
>Thanks
>Doug

Removing a CPU in W2K will cause no problem. Adding one is not always
automatically recognised but still cause no problems. I did this more than
once with a dual CPU server when I needed one CPU to test other
Motherboards with but needed the Server to carry on running (Obviously I
powered down to remove the CPU 🙂

No idea on XP as I do not run it but imagine it is the same as W2K.

Andy

 

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On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:39:20 -0700, "DougC"
<DougC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Ladies and gents
>I have a question about removal/addition of CPUs.
>I was told that if I was to remove one of the CPUs from a W2K box then this
>would screw up the OS.
>Now that I have XP Pro around, are they are issues with removing or adding a
>CPU at any time - and indeed was I told the truth about W2K, would it have
>blown a gasket?
>Does XP happily recognise the addition or removal of a CPU and carry on as
>normal (well...slower/faster!)?
>Thanks
>Doug

If you only have one processor and remove it, then yes your OS will
have problems. It wants the processor to be there; it NEEDS a
processor to be there.