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Re: DELL SP5-166-2 & Dual Processor in DOS, but not in NT4

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From: Roger Hamlett
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 00:00
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Tom Bird wrote in message ...
>In article <Q+8rmFABHef5EwkR@ghastly.demon.co.uk>, 'Dungeon' Dave
><Dungeon@SpamNot.Here> writes
>>.. and it came to pass that Charles Longley <Charles@thakeham.
>>demon.co.uk> uttered forth:
>>>Ahh, now that's interesting. It *was* indeed a single processor
install
>>>to begin with of course. So what are the options? I did note that
if I
>>>began a NEW installation, the blue screen which tells you how much
>>>RAM
>>>is in the system only reported one processor
>>
>>.. as its reporting the system configuration that it knows of. If
you
>>installed it in a single-processor machine, the platform will only
>>remember that one processor.
>
>I thought that when NT's CPU quota was increased, the blue bit at the
>start (heh, blue screen, start as you mean to go on NT...) recognised
>the full number of CPU's present but the main OS bit didn't.
No.
Single processor kernel installed, gives _BIOS_ reporting both
processors, but the OS does not (even in the first blue screen).

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From: "Roger Hamlett" <roger@ttelmah.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: DELL SP5-166-2 & Dual Processor in DOS, but not in NT4
Date: 2000/07/26
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