My X2 4200+ is not being recognized, right?

[Retard]

I have a chaintech vnf4 939 motherboard, which is supposed to support X2 939 processors with at least bios version 5. Well, for all I can tell, I have bios version 6.

So I ordered it, plugged it in, and the sucker comes up on the boot screen as "Hammer Processor -- Model Unknown". It says the same thing when I right-click on "My Computer" and go to hardware, and it only list a single 2.2ghz speed (whereas I think if it is recognizing the dual core it should recognie two 2.2ghz speed chips there).

This sound right? If so I'll have to flash the bios to the latest version (I think its version 7), but man I hate to do that cause there is a bios flash bug with the vnf4 motherboards.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Regs]

And you're running Windows XP SP2 I figure?

 

[Retard]

Oh snap, is that required? Bet I am not.

 

[Retard]

Actually, I just checked, yea, SP2 is installed.

 

[Retard]

OK, I flashed it. Both the computer start-up screen and the hardware tab from right clicking my computer recognize it as an X2 4200+, but I still only see one 2.20ghz rating. I thought there was supposed to be two?

Any way to easlily confirm without a doubt that I have both cores enabled?

Thanks a bunch.

 

[alcoholbob]

It's hard without a reference.

I went from a 3200+ A64 to a X2 4200+ and my bios screen also only lists 2.2GHz. But I immediately could tell the difference because I download a lot of games (ahem) that are around 4-5 gigs and decompressing them takes a couple of mins. When I do two at once it usually slows down significantly (more than twice as slow). But when I did the same (decompressed two .rar files simultaneously) I could immediately tell it was as fast as my old CPU decompressing a single .rar file. Again, you need a reference that you can easily spot.

 

[Retard]

I'm good mate---definately now have both cores working.

Thanks a bunch!

 

[coolied]

Originally posted by: Retard
OK, I flashed it. Both the computer start-up screen and the hardware tab from right clicking my computer recognize it as an X2 4200+, but I still only see one 2.20ghz rating. I thought there was supposed to be two?

Any way to easlily confirm without a doubt that I have both cores enabled?

Thanks a bunch.

It should say something like:

AMD(R) Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Dual Core CPU
@ 2.2GHz
2.20 GHz, x.xx GB of RAM

in the device manager, under processors, there should be 2 identical entries; and in the task manager (ctrl+alt+del, Task Manager) you should have 2 CPU Usage History graphs..... if this is true, it's recognizing both cores....

 

[Aluvus]

Was this an upgrade to a system that already had a single-core processor?

 

[Retard]

coolied--

That's it exactly. Up and running good after the bios flash. Thank god it didn't wipe my computer

Aluvus. Yeah, I had an single core Athlon XP in there before.