Re: Need to reinstall XP Pro when upgrading to Dual Xeon

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Right, I understand that. But does XP need to be reinstalled from scratch?
I lucked out and the old non-DP system was on my HD. Do I need to junk it
and re-install windows and then all my apps?
Thanks for your help
Emme

"Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> Emmet
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> Some applications are not written to utilise more than one processor..
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> Mike Hall
> MVP - Windows Shell/User
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> "Emmet K" <EmmetK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1E0B5C30-B697-4CAF-BFE8-FCA9A6FA7F84@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >I just recently upgraded my system from a P4 3.2 to dual Xeon 3.0. Just
> > about the only thing that remained the same were the hard drives which had
> > my
> > Xp install and a ton of other stuff on it. THe drives are RAID and by
> > some
> > freak of technological good luck the same SATA Raid driver was on the new
> > motherboard so my XP system and the the data just popped back up like
> > nothing
> > was amiss. It seems very stable and I see the quad processors in the
> > device
> > manager. I have tried grinding it with some intensive apps like Avid
> > (NLE)
> > and it did not seem to utlize much more than the first porcessor. Other
> > apps
> > (alright games) like EA Sports NHL utilized all four of the CPUS.
> >
> > My question is, is this just all too good to be true? Do I need to wipe
> > XP
> > out and rebuild the system from scratch with a fresh install? I'd love to
> > get off easy on this one. But I also want to leverage all the CPU
> > horsepower
> > I added
> >
> > Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated
> >
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