Dual Core 830 showing up as single in XP

[RickS]

I have an Asus P5LD2-Deluxe with a Pentium D 830. I had XP Pro installed and under Device Manager it showed up as two processors and in the task manager ( performance tab ) it showed two CPU windows. I just installed SP2 and now it only shows as One Processor in both places.

The benchmarks are also showing exactly half of what they should be.

Any thoughts ?

Thanks !

Rick..

 

[RickS]

The Asus Bios is the latest. The Bios itself correctly identifies the CPU. When the machine is posting, it also shows up correctly and the CPU count is 2.

 

[endyen]

Try restore and re-update for SP2. Hopefully SP3 does not play these silly games. It's out now, but wait a while if you can.

 

[RichPLS]

Could it be Win XP Home not supproting dual processors? What O/S do you have?

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[P4Man]

Isnt there an option in taskmanager to show all cpus in seperate graphs or not ? Also check device manager see if the cores show up there. Im suspecting everything is just fine.

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[HansGruber]

"My computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables" and in "System variables" box there is "Number_of_processors".

Is it 1 or 2 ?

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[xxsk8er101xx]

he said he had pro

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