Is there a driver for Core 2 Duo?

[HomeyFoos]

Is there a driver or anything of the like? In Task Manager I only see status grid.

 

[Stan]

You sure you have a core 2 duo and not a core 2 solo? My duo shows up in Windows XP SP2 clean install (no drivers) as two CPU Usage History graphs.

 

[Alone]

There's a setting in the task manager to show both cores (afaik).

 

[Steve]

Did you install Windows with this CPU or with another?

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: HomeyFoos
Is there a driver or anything of the like? In Task Manager I only see status grid.

Under the view menu, 'one graph per cpu'. If that option isn't enabled, your on the single proc hal (which means you must have done a chip switch from an existing single proc install). If so, do a repair install over your existing one.

Bill

 

[Shawn]

You should definitely be seeing 2 cpus.

 

[Cogman]

Originally posted by: Stan
You sure you have a core 2 duo and not a core 2 solo? My duo shows up in Windows XP SP2 clean install (no drivers) as two CPU Usage History graphs.

Just to clarify for you, there is no Core 2 Solo. There is a Core Solo and a single core Celeron based off of Conroes, but no Core 2 Solo.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Cogman

Originally posted by: Stan
You sure you have a core 2 duo and not a core 2 solo? My duo shows up in Windows XP SP2 clean install (no drivers) as two CPU Usage History graphs.

Just to clarify for you, there is no Core 2 Solo. There is a Core Solo and a single core Celeron based off of Conroes, but no Core 2 Solo.

Actually there are, they just aren't out for public consumption yet, so doubtfull that is what the OP is running.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Shawn
You should definitely be seeing 2 cpus.

Without enabling the view, the default in Taskman is one graph for all cpus...

 

[Xarick]

If you didnt reinstall xp when you installed your new core2duo processor you wont get them.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Xarick
If you didnt reinstall xp when you installed your new core2duo processor you wont get them.

This presumes the prior proc wasn't multicore and the single proc hal is instaled. At this point, two reasonable solutions (one a ui issue, the other a reinstall) have been provided, but we need the OP to chime in with more data.

 

[HomeyFoos]

Ya, guys, this was a clean install. I saw a post somewhere that said there was an app that needed to be run to 'truly' be on 2 cores. I had never heard of such a thing so I asked. If it's just a setting in Task Manager, I'll check it out. Just wondering if this person was correct.

 

[HomeyFoos]

The task manager setting was the problem. Thanks for the heads-up.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: HomeyFoos
Ya, guys, this was a clean install. I saw a post somewhere that said there was an app that needed to be run to 'truly' be on 2 cores. I had never heard of such a thing so I asked. If it's just a setting in Task Manager, I'll check it out. Just wondering if this person was correct.

Your friend was most likely refering to this patch. And yes, you want it.

Bill