XP Pro SP2 - Not Recognizing HT capable P4

[Nunya Business]

Greetings all. TIA for any help.

I have a laptop running a Prescott P4 at 3.2GHz.

HT is enabled in the BIOS.
Device Manager 'sees' 2 CPUs.
Task Manager 'sees' 1 CPU.

I tried disabling and re-enabling HT support in the BIOS: no change
I tried copying the appropriate HAL and NTKRNLMP.EXE to the System32 folder
then adding a line to the BOOT.INI: the system said I was missing a
<unknown>.sys file.

If anyone can come up with a solution that doesn't involve re-installing WinXP,
I'd greatly appreciate it. I'd really like to avoid having to reinstall all of
the associated software.

btw...This is a corporate computer sent from the other coast, so I don't have
all of the disks for software. That's why I'm trying to avoid re-install.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
John <--- geek w/o a clue.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

You never state the problem you are having. Please do so.

 

[Nunya Business]

Actually, I did. In the Subject line, I specified that XP is not recognizing
the HT capable P4.

Also, as a symptom, I stated that:
Thanks for your assistance.

John

You never state the problem you are having. Please do so.

Greetings all. TIA for any help.

I have a laptop running a Prescott P4 at 3.2GHz.

HT is enabled in the BIOS.
Device Manager 'sees' 2 CPUs.
Task Manager 'sees' 1 CPU.

I tried disabling and re-enabling HT support in the BIOS: no change
I tried copying the appropriate HAL and NTKRNLMP.EXE to the System32
folder then adding a line to the BOOT.INI: the system said I was missing a
<unknown>.sys file.

If anyone can come up with a solution that doesn't involve re-installing
WinXP, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'd really like to avoid having to
reinstall all of the associated software.

btw...This is a corporate computer sent from the other coast, so I don't
have all of the disks for software. That's why I'm trying to avoid
re-install.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
John <--- geek w/o a clue.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

This is normal behavior. It looks odd, but nevertheless what the device
manager is reporting indicates that hyperthreading is enabled.
Hyperthreading cpu's show up as two processors.

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)

Actually, I did. In the Subject line, I specified that XP is not
recognizing the HT capable P4.

Also, as a symptom, I stated that:
Thanks for your assistance.

John

You never state the problem you are having. Please do so.

-- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group
only unless otherwise requested) "Nunya Business" <[email protected]>
wrote in message

Greetings all. TIA for any help.

I have a laptop running a Prescott P4 at 3.2GHz.

HT is enabled in the BIOS.
Device Manager 'sees' 2 CPUs.
Task Manager 'sees' 1 CPU.

I tried disabling and re-enabling HT support in the BIOS: no change
I tried copying the appropriate HAL and NTKRNLMP.EXE to the System32
folder then adding a line to the BOOT.INI: the system said I was
missing a <unknown>.sys file.

If anyone can come up with a solution that doesn't involve
re-installing WinXP, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'd really like to
avoid having to reinstall all of the associated software.

btw...This is a corporate computer sent from the other coast, so I
don't have all of the disks for software. That's why I'm trying to
avoid re-install.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
John <--- geek w/o a clue.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Additional note: When the new dual core processors with hyperthreading
reach the market in a few months, they will appear as four processors in the
device manager. Device manager has not caught up with the marketplace in
this regard. It is an artifact of how the device manager polls the system.
It is not so much that device manager is reporting erroneously but that the
displayed info is ambiguous, perhaps incomplete.

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)

Actually, I did. In the Subject line, I specified that XP is not
recognizing the HT capable P4.

Also, as a symptom, I stated that:
Thanks for your assistance.

John

You never state the problem you are having. Please do so.

-- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group
only unless otherwise requested) "Nunya Business" <[email protected]>
wrote in message

Greetings all. TIA for any help.

I have a laptop running a Prescott P4 at 3.2GHz.

HT is enabled in the BIOS.
Device Manager 'sees' 2 CPUs.
Task Manager 'sees' 1 CPU.

I tried disabling and re-enabling HT support in the BIOS: no change
I tried copying the appropriate HAL and NTKRNLMP.EXE to the System32
folder then adding a line to the BOOT.INI: the system said I was
missing a <unknown>.sys file.

If anyone can come up with a solution that doesn't involve
re-installing WinXP, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'd really like to
avoid having to reinstall all of the associated software.

btw...This is a corporate computer sent from the other coast, so I
don't have all of the disks for software. That's why I'm trying to
avoid re-install.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
John <--- geek w/o a clue.