Alex_8803 Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 heres the situation i havea amd athlon x2 3800 and i cannot get windows to recognize that it is an X2 Processor. i have the mobo (DFI LanParty NF4) flashed to latest firmware that works w/ x2, i have gone to AMD's site and downloaded the drivers for the Dual Core processor, and i still nothing. i should see 2 CPU Usage History graphs when i go to preformance in task manager. but i only see one. and when i run AMD Clock it only sees 1 processor. is there anything i have to set up in the bios differently? can somebody guide me? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reinvented Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 Running XP Pro with Service Pack 2? If not, you need to be doing that so it can utilize both cores, and be detected as a Dual Core CPU. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_8803 Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 yes i am running xp pro service pack 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigredhog Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 Did you go into task manager then view and select one graph per CPU? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsopin Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 I am assuming tha tyou are upgrading the CPU from a single processor setup? Anyway, go to control panel, system, hardware, device manager, check the "computer", it might be still a ACPI Single Processor PC, double click it, and update the driver to ACPI Multiprocessor PC, reboot. THis should work, it worked for me anyway. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_8803 Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 nope i put this together as a whole new unit. the only processor ive had in this computer is a 3800 x2 also it does say ACPI multiprocessor in my device manager, but still i dont get 2 processors in the preformance tab of ctrl alt del Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_8803 Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 just checked and the mobo tells me AMD Athlon XP 3800+ Dual Processors, 2 CPU's or something very similar... so what can i do on the software side for this thing to work? i just reinstalled SP2 w/ no avail Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geno Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 I have the same problem, but i swapped out a FX-55 for a 4800 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_8803 Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 dam, any insight on what to do? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geno Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 I've been messing with it... I'm not sure what to do... Sandra shows two processors. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsopin Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 Try this one.........., might help, just googleed from the net. Go to the Task Manager, click the "View", "CPU History", make sure you are on the "One graph for each CPU". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_8803 Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 yup its set to one graph per CPU and still nothing. the other program i have to tell me its not working is AMD Clock, which only gives me CPU 0 and not CPU0 and CPU1 my friend has the EXACT setup i have different random software but same OS and his seems to work fine. dammit... all help is greatly appreciated Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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