Vista detecting dual core

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Just a quick note for anyone Using a GA-K8NXP-SLI mobo.

I installed an Ath X2 only to find that Vista did not recognise the dual cores.

After updating the bios (which has to be done one revision at a time!!!) I got Vsita to see the cores in the welcome center BUT task manager was not monitoring both and the OS wasn't using them.

Very strange but the reason was that If your BIOS doesn't detect the chip on boot, Vista install won't either!

After updating the Bios I had to re-install vista to get it to detect AND USE the dual core.

Cheers,

Melks
 
Yup, sometimes it will be automatic other times it won't. I'm guessing that because the OP did a BIOS upgrade then the signal to the OS about the hardware change didn't get sent. If the OP did the BIOS upgrade whilst on his single-core CPU, and then installed the dual-core CPU, it probably would have worked automatically.
 
Yeah I think the main reason is that the bios didn't know about the dual core so windows installed the single core HAL. Just thought I would try and save people a little time :)
 
The bios on my mobo supports dual core. XP would not recognise dual core until entered the correct HAL at install time but with Vista it was recognised automatically.
 
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