Hyperthreading on dual-Xeon system

[Alan]

I have a dual-Xeon system (TYAN 2668ANR mobo) running XP
Pro with Hyperthreading enabled in the BIOS. Under Device
Manager, it shows ACPI Multiprocessor PC, but only 2 Xeon
processors are listed under the Processor tab. How come I
don't see 4 processors? A friend has a dual-Xeon Dell
workstation running XP Pro. His shows 4 processors under
Device Manager. Is my workstation not configured
correctly?

-Alan

 

[Bill Crocker]

I'm running an HP x4000 workstation, with four Xeon 2GHz CPU's, and with
Hyperthreading enabled, WinXP Pro is indicating four CPU's.

Make sure you have Hyperthreading enabled in your system's BIOS. If it
wasn't, you and enable it now, you may need to reinstall Windows.

Bill Crocker

 

[Larry Samuels MS-MVP XP \(Shell/User\)]

Hi Bill,

XP Pro only supports 2 physical cpus+2 virtual cpus.
If you turn off hyperthreading you will only see that only 2 of your 4
physical cpus are in use.
To make use of all four physical processors you need Server 2003--with
hyperthreading you will have 8 processors in Server 2003.

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[Bill Crocker]

Oops!!! I meant to say, it has two physical CPU's, and with Hyperthreading
enabled, it appears like four CPU's.

Bill Crocker

 

[Larry Samuels MS-MVP XP \(Shell/User\)]

That's cool--just didn't want you to be wasting all that horsepower if you
had 4 Xeons installed!!

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Associate Expert
Unofficial FAQ for Windows Server 2003 at
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