ASUS PC-DL-DX Dual Xeon mainboard

[skydigger123]

I've got a Dual Xeon 3.06Ghz setup running fine under Windows XP
Professional.

How can I tell if the 2nd CPU is actually being utilized or what the
load on it is, etc? Would something like PC Probe do it, or?

thx!
Skydigger123

 

[Leythos]

I've got a Dual Xeon 3.06Ghz setup running fine under Windows XP
Professional.

How can I tell if the 2nd CPU is actually being utilized or what the
load on it is, etc? Would something like PC Probe do it, or?

Right click on the task bar, select Task Manager, and then Performance.

 

[skydigger123]

The ASUS monitoring agent using the windows system monitor, and it
shows that (by temp and voltage) both are present. However, unless I
am mistaken it looks like windows is not seeing two processors (only
one graph in Task Mgr, when setting is for '1 graph per CPU').

 

[Leythos]

The ASUS monitoring agent using the windows system monitor, and it
shows that (by temp and voltage) both are present. However, unless I
am mistaken it looks like windows is not seeing two processors (only
one graph in Task Mgr, when setting is for '1 graph per CPU').

Does it show TWO CPU's (actually 2+1 and 2+1) when you reboot and watch
the POST? All of our PC-DL boards show 2 CPU's, then one in BOLD WHITE,
and then two and one in bold white during the POST. If you don't see
both BOLD WHITE CPU's (or a total of 4 non-bold ones) then you need to
check your settings or that you actually have the second CPU installed.

 

[Tim]

If you installed the second CPU after XP was installed, the OS is probably
using the wrong HAL.
You can check this by going into Device Manager and double clicking on the
CPU.

If the HAL is wrong then you need to update it to a multiprocessor version.
There are several ways to do this. To start with, take a look at the
following article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309283

- Tim

 

[Leythos]

If you installed the second CPU after XP was installed, the OS is probably
using the wrong HAL.
You can check this by going into Device Manager and double clicking on the
CPU.

If the HAL is wrong then you need to update it to a multiprocessor version.
There are several ways to do this. To start with, take a look at the
following article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309283

Except that every Xeon CPU looks like a Dual and will be detected by XP
/ 2000 / 2003 as a dual CPU system. At least we've never had to change
the HAL on a Xeon system when adding a second CPU.

 

[Tim]

Check your boot.ini then. I have heard of cases where the number of CPU's
has been set there somehow overriding all else.
- Tim

 

[skydigger123]

Thanks for the help guys, a re-install of XP Pro seemed to do the
trick... (!?)

thx,
S.