My new X2.

[Balthazar]

So yeah, I broke down and bought an X2 3800+ installed it today, reboot windows....nothing, one CPU, thats it, windows KNOWS the name is X2 (not like that matters, I imagine they could call it the hamburgalar 4000 and windows wouldn't know that meant to install a Multiproc HAL).

Reboot again, check the bios make sure I'm not missing anything obvious.

By the way, during this time I tried to go into device manager and see wtf is up, no dice, device manager is BLANK.

What the hell right?

Goto add new hardware in control panel boom "ASPI Multiprocessor" yay, ok, reboot, sweetness, task manager shows two CPU's.

Device Manager is still empty.

I delete the profile files that save your console settings, open it again, nothing.

Anyone had this happen?

I'm not reinstalling windows JUST for this, but the amount of times I use the device manager means I'm going to want it back if at all possible.

Thanks.

 

[Duvie]

So have you installed the latest cpu drivers from AMDs website??

Since it shows 2 cpus in task manager have you tried to test it to see if the 2 cores are working??? Perhaps a sandra cpu test real quick?? Make sure you use version 2005-sr2a....Another good test would be cystalmark and compare to other users in this forum...

 

[Ronin]

Update to the mobo bios, too, perhaps?

 

[Balthazar]

Bios is up to date, didn't install the drivers (lol, havent had to install a CPU driver in a VERY long time).

After installing the driver however I STILL don't get anything in Device Manager.

But I was thinking about it and I got some new ram recently, and the other day I think I pushed it too hard (it was really warm in here for some reason that day) and my PC locked up, it rebooted and when windows came back it said it had to restore the registry from a backup or alternate copy.

I'm thinking that probably has more to do with it than anything else.

So I guess a reformat is in my future after all.

Thanks for the replies though!

 

[Hacp]

Thats why I spent that extra $$ on norton ghost so I don't have to waste 2 hours reformatting and reinstalling everything .

 

[Balthazar]

I have it, I just change hardware so often its nearly useless.

 

[Balthazar]

p.s.: it actually only takes me about 25 minutes from start to stop to reinstall windows. The drive I install to is fast, and I have a seperate partition with NOTHING but XP on it and the contents of my desktop.

Just copy the desktop folder to the other drive, reboot with the disc in place, and viola, 25 minutes later windows is installed and ready to rock.