Upgrading the HAL to multiproc
Posted: 2006-10-23 05:13pm
I realized the other day, after a year of computing, that windows wasn't recognizing my x2 3800s second core 
My install of windows was not 'fresh', instead its an image from my school laptop. As such, my Hardware Abstraction Layer is still ACPI Uniprocessor. Now, I didn't realize this was a problem because the device manager has always reported two processors, however now that I look at some of the more detailed diagnostic tools, none of them see a second core. So, since my windows came from a single processor enviorment, and is moving to a dual core enviorment, it would make sense that I've got to switch over.
Now, I did my homework and found two ways of dealing with this. 1: Re-install windows, which is hard without a windows CD. The second way seems far faster, and can be found here. I have determined from reading the first post, and a post on the 3rd page that in order to rebuild the HAL, I've got to remove the ACPI driver in the device manager and reboot, or maybe reinstall and tell it to use the multiproc version.
So, does anyone have any experience with this, or know the exact 'thing' I have to do to pull this off without reinstalling windows? I don't really have a whole lot of time to deal with computer problems for the next two months. I'd like to do this right the first time, or at least not do it in such a way that I've got to re-image the entire drive.
My install of windows was not 'fresh', instead its an image from my school laptop. As such, my Hardware Abstraction Layer is still ACPI Uniprocessor. Now, I didn't realize this was a problem because the device manager has always reported two processors, however now that I look at some of the more detailed diagnostic tools, none of them see a second core. So, since my windows came from a single processor enviorment, and is moving to a dual core enviorment, it would make sense that I've got to switch over.
Now, I did my homework and found two ways of dealing with this. 1: Re-install windows, which is hard without a windows CD. The second way seems far faster, and can be found here. I have determined from reading the first post, and a post on the 3rd page that in order to rebuild the HAL, I've got to remove the ACPI driver in the device manager and reboot, or maybe reinstall and tell it to use the multiproc version.
So, does anyone have any experience with this, or know the exact 'thing' I have to do to pull this off without reinstalling windows? I don't really have a whole lot of time to deal with computer problems for the next two months. I'd like to do this right the first time, or at least not do it in such a way that I've got to re-image the entire drive.
