Dual CPU Support?

[messiur_geek]

Hello. I am building a system that will use XP SP3. Its motherboard has 2
slots for Xeon processors, and both will be full with Xeon dual-core 2.4GHz
processors that use the x86 instruction set. Will I be able to use both in
XPSP3?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hello. I am building a system that will use XP SP3. Its motherboard has 2
slots for Xeon processors, and both will be full with Xeon dual-core 2.4GHz
processors that use the x86 instruction set. Will I be able to use both in
XPSP3?

If you run XP Professional, yes. If you run XP Home, no. XP Home will
use only one of them.

 

[Thee Chicago Wolf]

Hello. I am building a system that will use XP SP3. Its motherboard has 2

slots for Xeon processors, and both will be full with Xeon dual-core 2.4GHz
processors that use the x86 instruction set. Will I be able to use both in
XPSP3?

XP Pro will. And I also recommend you slipstream SP3 into your install
CD if not already as some of the updates in SP3 are specific to system
that will be using more than a single core CPU.

- Thee Chicago Wolf

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Hello. I am building a system that will use XP SP3. Its motherboard has 2
slots for Xeon processors, and both will be full with Xeon dual-core
2.4GHz
processors that use the x86 instruction set. Will I be able to use both in
XPSP3?

If your XP version is Pro, not Home. The SP version is not relevant.

XP Home supports only one physical processor (but does handle multiple cores
on single processors).

HTH
-pk