Carquip Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 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%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Check your BIOS settings. There SHOULD be an option to enable/disable one of the cores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carquip Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share Posted July 13, 2006 Thanks "gamehead", but no such option in this bios.Any other suggestions??. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Open Task Manager and see if it shows two processors? Or open device manager and see if your computer type is uni or multiprocessor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carquip Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share Posted July 13, 2006 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??. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen2 Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 No you don't need it. But as for me there isn't a dual core athlon FX62, the athlon FX62 is mono core. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsposter Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 here is the straight Athlon info from AMD:http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Produc...5_13041,00.htmlhttp://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Produc...85_9488,00.htmlhttp://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Produc...85_9487,00.htmlhttp://www.amdcompare.com/us-en/desktop/Default.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen2 Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grafx1 Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 (edited) if you have XP Home, you will need SP2 to run Dual Corebut 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carquip Posted July 15, 2006 Author Share Posted July 15, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 good to hear, need to remember this one in case someone else has this problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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