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I'm sure there must be other ways to check but try running Task Manager, then select the Performance tab, select the View drop-down menu and make sure "One graph per CPU" is selected, this should show you if the system is "seeing" all the processors.....????
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SEANOS,
Your problem is that because you installed NT and there was only one processor it does not automatically upgrade to a multi processor operating system.
What you need to do is run the command UPTOMP.EXE which can be found in the Resource Kit.
The white paper for this is on the Microsoft Knowledge Base and is Q124541
Cheers....Grimmy
Your problem is that because you installed NT and there was only one processor it does not automatically upgrade to a multi processor operating system.
What you need to do is run the command UPTOMP.EXE which can be found in the Resource Kit.
The white paper for this is on the Microsoft Knowledge Base and is Q124541
Cheers....Grimmy
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note to all for anyone that also has this problem.
If you run uptomp.exe from sp4, which you probably will as this was the last service pack where the files were accessible, and you are running sp6, make sure you reinstall sp6 BEFORE you reboot your server/machine. If you dont you'll find that your machine wont reboot. The uptomp.exe from sp4 uses sp4 files which buggers up any later version of service packs you may have installed.
just a word to the wise.
If you run uptomp.exe from sp4, which you probably will as this was the last service pack where the files were accessible, and you are running sp6, make sure you reinstall sp6 BEFORE you reboot your server/machine. If you dont you'll find that your machine wont reboot. The uptomp.exe from sp4 uses sp4 files which buggers up any later version of service packs you may have installed.
just a word to the wise.
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I run a FreeBSD and Windows machines at home. A couple of weeks ago I had to reinstall Win98 because it was jacked up. I had inadvertanly thrown away my product key when I changed jewel cases, though I still had my Win95 OEM key. I called my sister and got her Win98 pk... nope didn't work. So I called Micro$oft, and explained to them I purchased it 2 years ago at OfficeMax and did not have my product key anymore. The lady was helpful and generated a new pk for me and said if it didn't work to call back. That evening I tried to install and guess what? It didn't work. I called back Micro$oft and they generated 3 new pk's for me and none of them worked. The last thing they told me was pay us $35 and we will open up a case and try and figure it out for you (I paid $99 two years ago - I wasn't going to pay a third of that again).
At work the next day a buddy agreed to bring in his Win98 CD for me to upgrade my Win95. His was Win98 and mine is Win98SE. And just for grins, I tried his pk on my install and lo-and-behold guess what? It worked. After 4 product keys generated from Micro$oft themselves, and my sister's Win98SE pk would not work a Win98 first edition pk worked. Typical of their crap they push out on the market. But that is (was) not all. Since I have installed Win98 from a fresh install... the computer will not shutdown! I have to hit the reset button then when it comes back up I hit the power button. But it has shutdown 3 times like it should, but it cannot restart at anytime. Typical of the crap they put on the market.
I never have problems with my BSD box or any of my 75 AIX SP nodes at work.
And talk about my NT workstation at work! Lo-and-behold I would like to understand how M$ can continue to put out crap, and to charge for it! It is unstable, shoddy, poorly written and developed, and inferior.
And then talk about how they do their registration for the new improved dynamic forward-thinking revolutionary industrial-strength powerful XP! Amazingly they continue to make money.
I curse everytime I have to use Windows!
At work the next day a buddy agreed to bring in his Win98 CD for me to upgrade my Win95. His was Win98 and mine is Win98SE. And just for grins, I tried his pk on my install and lo-and-behold guess what? It worked. After 4 product keys generated from Micro$oft themselves, and my sister's Win98SE pk would not work a Win98 first edition pk worked. Typical of their crap they push out on the market. But that is (was) not all. Since I have installed Win98 from a fresh install... the computer will not shutdown! I have to hit the reset button then when it comes back up I hit the power button. But it has shutdown 3 times like it should, but it cannot restart at anytime. Typical of the crap they put on the market.
I never have problems with my BSD box or any of my 75 AIX SP nodes at work.
And talk about my NT workstation at work! Lo-and-behold I would like to understand how M$ can continue to put out crap, and to charge for it! It is unstable, shoddy, poorly written and developed, and inferior.
And then talk about how they do their registration for the new improved dynamic forward-thinking revolutionary industrial-strength powerful XP! Amazingly they continue to make money.
I curse everytime I have to use Windows!
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Micro$oft and Window$ have about as much use for me as a third ear on my forehead!
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