Re: Dual Core issue

Ben wrote:
Here are two pictures of the problem I'm having.
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff263/Guidottib/taskmanager.jpg
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff263/Guidottib/devicemanager.jpg
Please help me to figure out why both cores aren't working or showing.
Thanks

Is it possible the installation of SP3, caused the AMD CPU
driver to be uninstalled ?

First check your Add/Remove, and see what AMD software you've already installed.

Next, there are two items you can play with here. "AMD Processor Driver Version 1.3.2.0053"
is second from the bottom. And roughly in the middle of the page, is
"AMD Power Monitor Version 1.2.3" for Windows. The files would be
AMD_Processor_Driver_1320053.zip and AMD_Power_Monitor_123.zip.
Some motherboard makers have their own version of the Power Monitor,
with a fancy looking skin for it. The driver is the one you
want the most - the other one is just for diagnostic reasons.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_13118,00.html

This thread, getting rather long now, was one that helped clarify
what to do when setting up a new AMD processor. Now that SP3
is out, things like Update4 should have been rolled into the
OS without needing a separate download. But as far as I know
(and based on someone's experience a couple days ago), the
CPU driver is still required to get full performance from the
computer.

(It might be best, to start at the last page of the thread, to
find more SP3 experiences.)

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=60416

Other than that, I don't know anything about how that stuff is wired
underneath. The Device Manager at least, seems to have been convinced
to use the Multiprocessor HAL. You could also check the tasks and
see if the ability to "Set Affinity" in Task Manager is there.
You can force a user task to stay on one core or the other, and
that ability would only exist, if the OS thought it had two cores
to be scheduled.

If that all looks fine, then you'd have to wonder how the
plugin that provides CPU charts works, and what its dependencies
are. And I have no idea whether code or scripts are used to do
that.

Paul
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