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upgrading 2000pro from 1 to 2 cpu's

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syf3r

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anyone familiar with the procedure for adding a second CPU to an already-installed 2000pro machine...? the BIOS recognizes the second processor as being there, but the system does not... environment variable window shows 1 processor, and the performance monitor shows only one CPU usage chart... is there some specific procedure for "activating" the second processor, or does this have to be done during installation...?

 
methinks that you will have to reinstall the OS for it to pick up the second CPU. There are probably some accessory .DLLs that have to be installed on a 2 CPU machine that don't have to be there on a 1 CPU machine that were not copied when you installed on a one processor machine.

Of course, if you have your system on one partition and your data and apps on another, just do this: back up the windows registry and the start menu items to the data / apps partition, reinstall windows on the OS partition, then patch the registry back and you are back in business.

g'luck
 
yeah, i was considering that, but this was a preinstalled-by-dell copy of 2000 and it's worth doing a full reinstall to get rid of all the dell service garbage and outlook express and all that extra unneeded stuff.
 
Check around on the net, cause I know HP made a utility that will allow you to add more processors to a Win2K servermachine without doing a re-install. You might be able to find a similar utility that will work for 2Kpro.

If I find it I'll post a link to it.
 

unless you find some sort of magic utility (which i dont think i would trust), you'll have to reinstall.

this is because, although they are the same version, there is a different kernel installed for multi-cpu. there is no way you could "upgrade" without replacing the uniprocessor kernel with the SMP kernel.

just reinstall, but dont choose clean install, and it will save all your program settings, but redetect the hardware (essentially it saves the software and hive and replaces the system hive).

should be a piece of cake, now that NT 5 (aka win2k) keeps the software hive if you reinstall over top an existing installation (ala 98)
 
heres your answer buddy

goto device manager and u will see a option that says standard pc
its the top option from where you u will see display, harddrive etc.
i am sure u will find it. anyways chaneg the standard pc by updating driver and specify from the list and pick multi processor but not acpi multi processor

then reboot and win2k will have 2 cpus detected
goto the system information crap and it will tell u u have 2 cpus
 
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