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intel Dual-Core CPU not recognized AGAIN!



 
 
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Old June 16th 08, 09:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Chuck Harding
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Default intel Dual-Core CPU not recognized AGAIN!

This is getting totally rediculeous. TWICE now when I've had to do a
repair-install of a microsoft operating system it ends up that the intel P4
D830 is NOT recognized as a dual-core CPU! The last time was with an XP Pro
installation and this time with VISTA! I looked everywhere on every support
forum I could find and none of the suggested fixes worked, they seemed to all
be about problems with AMD CPUs. I finally ran across a list of the driver
files that were used for dual-core under XP and used a Linux live boot CD
that had NTFS write support built in to force the correct files to be used by
copying them over the hal.dll, ntoskrnl.exe, and the other one I can't
remember at the moment. Then I decided to upgrade to Vista. I had all kinds
of problems with the video drivers and finally got that all working. Then I
made the mistake of attempting to remove Norton 360 from my computer because
I had suddenly lost the ability to download my email and everything I could
find on all the support forums I am on pointed the finger at Norton. What a
disaster! It took me two days to finally get Vista re-installed and then I
noticed it only had recognized the CPU as a single core CPU. I tried to fix
it the same way I did XP but the only file I could find was hal.dll and not
the others. So now what? Here's my hardware rundown:

ASUS AL8(-V) motherboard (Intel Lakeport i945P)
BIOS Phoenix AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Intel P4 D830 CPU - OC 3333MHz
4x1gb Geil DDR2
2xMaxtor 6L300S0 300gb SATA HDD
Adaptec AHA-2940UW SCSI Controller
Quantum CP32210 SCSI HDD
2xSony DRU-720A
ATI All-In-Wonder X600 Pro video
Samsung SyncMaster 204T FPD
Wacom Intos3 Graphics tablet 9x12
Unitron SpillSeal Wireless Keyboard

Vista Ultimate SP1

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Old June 16th 08, 09:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
SCSIraidGURU
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Default intel Dual-Core CPU not recognized AGAIN!


Do you have ACPI enabled in the BIOS? Is your BIOS up to date and see
your dual cores?


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Michael A. McKenney
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Supermicro X7DWA-N server board
pair of Intel E5430 quad core 2.66 GHz Xeons
16GB DDR667
SAS RAID
eVGA 8800 GTS 640 MB video card
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Old June 18th 08, 07:00 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Chuck Harding
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Default intel Dual-Core CPU not recognized AGAIN!


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"SCSIraidGURU" wrote:


Do you have ACPI enabled in the BIOS? Is your BIOS up to date and see
your dual cores?



The BIOS is the latest and it DOES and ALWAYS has shown two CPUs. Also,
Everest Home Edition v2.20.405 shows it as dual-core. Only the Device Manager
and task manager fail to recognize it as dual-core.

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Michael A. McKenney
'www.SCSIraidGURU.com' (http://www.SCSIraidGURU.com)

Supermicro X7DWA-N server board
pair of Intel E5430 quad core 2.66 GHz Xeons
16GB DDR667
SAS RAID
eVGA 8800 GTS 640 MB video card

 




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