upgrade to 2 processors

[ian barnes]

COULD YOU HELP ME I HAVE BEEN RUNNING A FINANCIAL
APPLICATION ON MY WINDOWS NT WORKSTATION
4.0 CONTAINS A SINGLE PROCESSOR,IHAVE NOTICED A DECREASE
IN PERFORMANCE,I HAVE UPGRADED TO WIN 2K
SUCCESSFULY AND I HAVE ADDED A SECOND IDENTICAL
PROCESSOR YET I HAVE STILL NOT NOTICED AN IMPROVEMENT
MY DEVICE MANAGER STATES STANDARD PC.
SHOULD I HAVE ENABLED THE SECOND PROCESSOR USING
UPTOMP.EXE OR ACPI SUPPORT.
ANY HELP IN THIS MATTER WOULD BE GREATFUL

 

[Dave Patrick]

Please lose the caps. This article may help but if you currently have a
non-ACPI hal loaded then you'll probably need to reinstall the operating
system. Make sure the mb bios and any hardware is Windows 2000 compliant.

How to Add Support for Multiple Processors in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=234558


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
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:
| COULD YOU HELP ME I HAVE BEEN RUNNING A FINANCIAL
| APPLICATION ON MY WINDOWS NT WORKSTATION
| 4.0 CONTAINS A SINGLE PROCESSOR,IHAVE NOTICED A DECREASE
| IN PERFORMANCE,I HAVE UPGRADED TO WIN 2K
| SUCCESSFULY AND I HAVE ADDED A SECOND IDENTICAL
| PROCESSOR YET I HAVE STILL NOT NOTICED AN IMPROVEMENT
| MY DEVICE MANAGER STATES STANDARD PC.
| SHOULD I HAVE ENABLED THE SECOND PROCESSOR USING
| UPTOMP.EXE OR ACPI SUPPORT.
| ANY HELP IN THIS MATTER WOULD BE GREATFUL