Removal of Processor

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Ladies and gents
I have a question about removal/addition of CPUs.
I was told that if I was to remove one of the CPUs from a W2K box then this
would screw up the OS.
Now that I have XP Pro around, are they are issues with removing or adding a
CPU at any time - and indeed was I told the truth about W2K, would it have
blown a gasket?
Does XP happily recognise the addition or removal of a CPU and carry on as
normal (well...slower/faster!)?
Thanks
Doug
 
DougC said:
Ladies and gents
I have a question about removal/addition of CPUs.
I was told that if I was to remove one of the CPUs from a W2K box then this
would screw up the OS.
Now that I have XP Pro around, are they are issues with removing or adding a
CPU at any time - and indeed was I told the truth about W2K, would it have
blown a gasket?
Does XP happily recognise the addition or removal of a CPU and carry on as
normal (well...slower/faster!)?
Thanks
Doug
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Removing a CPU in W2K will cause no problem. Adding one is not always
automatically recognised but still cause no problems. I did this more than
once with a dual CPU server when I needed one CPU to test other
Motherboards with but needed the Server to carry on running (Obviously I
powered down to remove the CPU :-)

No idea on XP as I do not run it but imagine it is the same as W2K.

Andy
 
Ladies and gents
I have a question about removal/addition of CPUs.
I was told that if I was to remove one of the CPUs from a W2K box then this
would screw up the OS.
Now that I have XP Pro around, are they are issues with removing or adding a
CPU at any time - and indeed was I told the truth about W2K, would it have
blown a gasket?
Does XP happily recognise the addition or removal of a CPU and carry on as
normal (well...slower/faster!)?
Thanks
Doug
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If you only have one processor and remove it, then yes your OS will
have problems. It wants the processor to be there; it NEEDS a
processor to be there.
 
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