How to tell if Dual processor is in dual mode?

[Carquip]

Gigabyte GA-M55plus-S3G, AMD FX62 dual 2.8gig, 2gig Corsair DDR2/800 Pro.

How can I tell if the processor is in dual mode?.

Burning a DVD with NERO at 4speed & processor usage is 100%.

[gamehead200]

Check your BIOS settings. There SHOULD be an option to enable/disable one of the cores.

[Carquip]

Thanks "gamehead", but no such option in this bios.

Any other suggestions??.

[cluberti]

Open Task Manager and see if it shows two processors? Or open device manager and see if your computer type is uni or multiprocessor?

[ripken204]

[Carquip]

Task manager only shows one processor. Device manager says AMD 64 FX62 Dual core processor.

I only have S/P1 installed. Does this processor require S/P2??.

[allen2]

No you don't need it. But as for me there isn't a dual core athlon FX62, the athlon FX62 is mono core.

[newsposter]

here is the straight Athlon info from AMD:

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Produc...5_13041,00.html

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Produc...85_9488,00.html

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Produc...85_9487,00.html

http://www.amdcompare.com/us-en/desktop/Default.aspx

[allen2]

Oups, my mistake, since FX60 athlon 64 are dual core. Did a little research and found that your bios doesn't have the smp settings allowing different smp compatibilities. Perhaps it's a bios bug with the gigabyte motherboard.

[grafx1]

if you have XP Home, you will need SP2 to run Dual Core

but don't know about XP Pro, i think you can try the SP2 in all cases, it has a lot of fixes.

Edited July 14, 2006 by grafx1

[ripken204]

No you don't need it. But as for me there isn't a dual core athlon FX62, the athlon FX62 is mono core.

you almost made me cry there. lol. the fx62 was a big thing.

grafx1-now i didnt know, thx for the update. but i rly think that everyone should be using sp2 by now, once its nlited it runs pretty well.

[Carquip]

I had S/P1 installed, installed S/S2 & still no go. S/P2 wont overwrite some of S/P1`s critical files.

I deleted the partitions from the drive & re-installed Windows with S/P2, & Bingo. Everything works as it should. S/P2 has a lot of bugs.

Thanks ppl.

[ripken204]

good to hear, need to remember this one in case someone else has this problem