Vista not seeing my other CPU

[Guest]

I have a Dell Dimension 4600 which has two Pentium 4 CPU's. Vista seems to
only see one and everything is super slow!!! What can I do to speed things
up? I have 1.5 gig RAM, and a rating of 3.8 overall. I can't multitask at all
and am thinking of going back to XP if this is all the faster I can go, even
though I spent over $300 to buy Vista (I have Ultimate coming). Right now I
have Home Premium.

 

[Spirit]

Home Premium does not support dual processors... it does support
dual cores...

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Compare the Vista Versions

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I have a Dell Dimension 4600 which has two Pentium 4 CPU's. Vista seems to
only see one

Not Vista in general, but Vista Home Premium in particular (see
below).

and everything is super slow!!! What can I do to speed things
up?

Without clarification, I don't know what "super slow" means, but if
things are truly very slow, I would suspect malware infestation,
rather than blaming it on Vista.

I have 1.5 gig RAM, and a rating of 3.8 overall. I can't multitask at all
and am thinking of going back to XP if this is all the faster I can go, even
though I spent over $300 to buy Vista (I have Ultimate coming). Right now I
have Home Premium.

The Home versions of Vista do not support more than one physical
processor.

Exactly the same is true of XP.

You will get the multi-processor support when you go to Vista
Ultimate. If you go back to XP, you will also not get multi-processor
support unless you go to Professional, not Home.

 

[NoStop]

Not Vista in general, but Vista Home Premium in particular (see
below).




Without clarification, I don't know what "super slow" means, but if
things are truly very slow, I would suspect malware infestation,
rather than blaming it on Vista.

How is this possible? MickeyMouse says that Vista is the most secure Windoze
ever!

The Home versions of Vista do not support more than one physical
processor.

Exactly the same is true of XP.

You will get the multi-processor support when you go to Vista
Ultimate. If you go back to XP, you will also not get multi-processor
support unless you go to Professional, not Home.

Cawching ... will that be Visa or Mastercard? MickeyMouse, sucking away the
dollars again.

Save money ... install Ubuntu ... it'll see and use both processors ... cost
FREE. And OP won't be slowed down by malware.

Cheers.

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[Frank]

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:



How is this possible? MickeyMouse says that Vista is the most secure Windoze
ever!



Cawching ... will that be Visa or Mastercard? MickeyMouse, sucking away the
dollars again.

Save money ... install Ubuntu ... it'll see and use both processors ... cost
FREE. And OP won't be slowed down by malware.

Cheers.

STFU doris!
Frank

 

[Bob Knowlden]

The Dimension 4600 appears to be a Socket 478 machine, supporting a single
P4.

I suppose that the OP has a P4 that supports hyperthreading, and somehow it
wasn't detected when Vista was installed. (Was hyperthreading turned on in
the system's BIOS settings? The Dell P4 machines that I see at work
generally have hyperthreading turned off. Whether it's the default, or
whether our IT department turns it off for maximum compatibility, I don't
know.)

There are methods for changing the HAL in XP, but I know of none in Vista.

I don't know what is messed up in the OP's system. I doubt that having no
hyperthreading would make the machine feel slow most of the time. Vista
might run slightly slower than XP, but not greatly so.

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