i want to see which hal.dll is being used. device manager just shows hal.dll on my p4 w/ht as does my xp2000 machine, even though one is listed a acpi uniprocessor and one is listed a acpi multiprocessor pcs. according to m$, my p4 should be using Halmacpi.dll and the xp2000 machine should be using Halaacpi.dll.
i am trying to see if i could swap out my m/b and cpu for a opteron 144, 146, or 165 cpu/m/b using sysrep without a full install.
then move my xp2000 machine over to my p4 machine, again, without a reinstall since i have everthing configured the way i like it.
the xp2000 machine has apache, mysql, php4 and many other programs on that i just don't want to re-configure.
if i could just use the sysrep method, we are talking a 2-3hr job for both machines, but if i have to reinstall everything, we are talking a 2-3day job.