IP35-E, only one CPU shown on POST, with an E2200

[VirtualLarry]

I have been having problems booting a system with an E2200 and an IP35-E into windows, and I noticed that the BIOS POST screen displays "(2933Mhz, 1 CPU)". Shouldn't it display 2 CPUs?

Inside Windows XP, after it boots, there are two CPU graphs in Task Manager, so it appears that both CPU cores are working.

Is this normal, or is this an anomoly? IP35-E users with dual-core chips, please chime in.

I think that the board has BIOS 13 in it, whatever BIOS it shipped with.

 

[Sylvanas]

Normal, if it said '2933mhz 1core' then something would be wrong but it is physically one CPU with two cores.

 

[o1die]

My compaq only displays one cpu (no mention of 2 cores), but with coretemp, it displays 2 core temps, so I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yes, but IIRC, my Gigabyte P35-DS3R displays "2 CPUs" for my E2140 chips. I should probably reboot and verify that, but I'm busy downloading right now.

 

[RallyMaster]

As long as Windows picks it up as two cores, you're fine.

 

[mindless1]

On my IP35-E with E2180, it first pops up the MHz and 1 core or 1 CPU, (I forget which), then on the same line and place where it showed 1, it then changes that to two during the rest of the info displaying on that screen page, just a moment before it then move to boot devices and such page. You might see if you can hit keyboard Pause key the very last moment before the screen clears, if it did update the "1" to a "2".

It could be that you need a different bios for full bios detection of that specific CPU for esthetic purposes, but that it works in windows is proof of a good enough result. I'm still waiting for a bios that officially supports E2180, until then it seems I have problems using a different multiplier with a higher FSB & memory that otherwise works ok. I mean when overclocking, it seems almost like it applies higher FSB before applying lower than default multiplier or memory ratio change, so it randomly fails to post in that scenario but worked fine when it did. Keeping multiplier at stock it never fails to post AFAIK and even runs same higher FSB & mem in that situation albeit needing higher vcore for the higher CPU speed.

I'd tried the last (maybe 1.6 series, I forget and am too lazy to check) versions including beta before the preset bios version and those wouldn't even let the board enter into the bios menus at all, it's just stall if it tried to I went back two versions and waited until last version came out. I guess my point is, be cautious about flashing a newer bios if it doesn't have official support. In that case it may help or hurt.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, after watching it again, just before that screen disappears, it updates the "1" into a "2". So I guess everything is fine, just the BIOS is a little bit wierd in how it displays the CPU count.