AMD Athlon 64 X2 D-C 4200+ on a K8N Neo4 Plat. Dual booting XP and Vista Ultimate.
Didn't realize I was only using Core1 until I installed a Vista gadget in the Sidebar that shows CPU Usage and RAM.
I kicked this around over at "Experts-Exchange" and found that by booting in to BIOS, taking a look, "That's all", at the Core settings, and than booting into Vista did I get the Core2 to work.
Here's the post over there.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/Windows_Vista/Q_22420530.html
If I go back and reboot to XP, reboot to Vista, I'll only have Core1 until I do the BIOS thing.
Here's what one of the guy's said:
"the x2 sometimes req's you to boot in to the bios to activate the second core even if you dont touch anything its a weird glitch with some motherboards which you may have encountered it does seem to be fixed now so you should be good and by the way to get true dual core processing the application has to be designed for it other wise it just splits the tasks up between the processor's cores most app's and games will take either core but will not actually use them both so it may help a little to have the second core take some task's but you wont notice to much of a diffrence in running single apps or games untill they are made to take advantage of the dual cores and use them both"
I'm still bouncing between the 2 OS's and really don't like the BIOS boot hassle.
Anyone got any ideas?
Pete
Didn't realize I was only using Core1 until I installed a Vista gadget in the Sidebar that shows CPU Usage and RAM.
I kicked this around over at "Experts-Exchange" and found that by booting in to BIOS, taking a look, "That's all", at the Core settings, and than booting into Vista did I get the Core2 to work.
Here's the post over there.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/Windows_Vista/Q_22420530.html
If I go back and reboot to XP, reboot to Vista, I'll only have Core1 until I do the BIOS thing.
Here's what one of the guy's said:
"the x2 sometimes req's you to boot in to the bios to activate the second core even if you dont touch anything its a weird glitch with some motherboards which you may have encountered it does seem to be fixed now so you should be good and by the way to get true dual core processing the application has to be designed for it other wise it just splits the tasks up between the processor's cores most app's and games will take either core but will not actually use them both so it may help a little to have the second core take some task's but you wont notice to much of a diffrence in running single apps or games untill they are made to take advantage of the dual cores and use them both"
I'm still bouncing between the 2 OS's and really don't like the BIOS boot hassle.
Anyone got any ideas?
Pete