Is XP seeing both CPU's

[curt]

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I have XP running on a dual Xeon PC but I'm not sure XP actually sees both
CPU's. The hardware (BIOS) knows there are 2 but in XP Systems Properties, I
see Computer, Intel Pentium III Xeon processor. Device Manger says MPS
Multiprocessor PC. Anyone else with a dual cpu system that can tell me what
their Systems Properties says?

 

[Guest]

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Windows XP Professional supports up to two (2) CPUs.
Windows XP Home Edition supports only one (1) CPU.

Which version of Windows XP did you install?

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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"Curt" wrote:

| I have XP running on a dual Xeon PC but I'm not sure XP actually sees both
| CPU's. The hardware (BIOS) knows there are 2 but in XP Systems Properties, I
| see Computer, Intel Pentium III Xeon processor. Device Manger says MPS
| Multiprocessor PC. Anyone else with a dual cpu system that can tell me what
| their Systems Properties says?

 

[curt]

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It's XP Pro...I checked PerfMon and it does indicate that there are 2 CPU's.
But I'm curious as to why System Properties doesn't actually SAY that there
are 2 CPU's. Anyone else with a dual cpu system that can tell me what
their Systems Properties says?

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

> Windows XP Professional supports up to two (2) CPUs.
> Windows XP Home Edition supports only one (1) CPU.
>
> Which version of Windows XP did you install?
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows XP - Shell/User
> Microsoft Newsgroups
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "Curt" wrote:
>
> | I have XP running on a dual Xeon PC but I'm not sure XP actually sees both
> | CPU's. The hardware (BIOS) knows there are 2 but in XP Systems Properties, I
> | see Computer, Intel Pentium III Xeon processor. Device Manger says MPS
> | Multiprocessor PC. Anyone else with a dual cpu system that can tell me what
> | their Systems Properties says?
>

 

[Guest]

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Is it Home or Pro? Home will only see one physical processor but will see
the Hyper-Threaded virtual processor.

As for see the two processors, you will see them in Device Manager.


"Curt" <Curt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news745184B-E8C5-4993-AF9A-7CC8744040AF@microsoft.com...
>I have XP running on a dual Xeon PC but I'm not sure XP actually sees both
> CPU's. The hardware (BIOS) knows there are 2 but in XP Systems Properties,
> I
> see Computer, Intel Pentium III Xeon processor. Device Manger says MPS
> Multiprocessor PC. Anyone else with a dual cpu system that can tell me
> what
> their Systems Properties says?

 

[frodo]

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Curt <Curt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have XP running on a dual Xeon PC but I'm not sure XP actually sees both
> CPU's. The hardware (BIOS) knows there are 2 but in XP Systems Properties, I
> see Computer, Intel Pentium III Xeon processor. Device Manger says MPS
> Multiprocessor PC. Anyone else with a dual cpu system that can tell me what
> their Systems Properties says?

in device manager it'll list both cpus under "Processors".

in task manager | performance tab, the view menu will offer "cpu history |
one graph per cpu" if you have multi-cpus, so you can monitor loading.