JDMJOSH Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 Sort of... just installed this cpu, everything booted up fine, went into bios and loaded optimized defaults and here I am in windows. Processor tab in device manager clearly shows 2 entries "Dual Core AMD Opteron Processor 165" but the computer tab only shows "ACPI Uniprocessor X64 based PC", the processor selection tab in cpuz is blacked out and the performance tab under the task manager is only showing a bar graph for one core. Any ideas here?? When I first booted up it found a new device and was looking for a driver for "ACPI MultiProcessor X64 based PC" but I had no such thing. Im sure this is an easy fix here.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
THunDA Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 Try this.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorrento Posted July 12, 2006 Posted July 12, 2006 If you are upgrading CPU from a single core one you need to install the AMD dual core driver... the Microsoft one doesn't work well sometimes, but weird enough it does work well sometimes. Thunda's link is good, but the hotfix and reg hack are just for games IMO... aplications that work with both cores do well with out these things. If gaming is what you will do then this link will explain more on the subject: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=983781 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMJOSH Posted July 12, 2006 Posted July 12, 2006 When I booted my xp32 partition without doing anything, everything was recognized and worked fine cpuz, task manager etc. its xp64 Im having problems with. I cant install the hotfix because its looking for the c:boot.ini and the drive letter on x64 is H: for some reason . when I boot to xp32, its shows the x64 partition as c: really confusing here Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMJOSH Posted July 12, 2006 Posted July 12, 2006 ok, fixed the x64 problem by installing hall.dll file of the x64 cd. everything seems fine now Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanDude05 Posted July 12, 2006 Posted July 12, 2006 Is it showing as Dual core in the Task Manager then? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMJOSH Posted July 12, 2006 Posted July 12, 2006 yes, although I still cant install the x2 driver while the drive letter is still h: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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