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

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From: Tom Bird
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 00:00

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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.

TB               Busby the Cat 1984 - 22.9.1999

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From: Tom Bird <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: DELL SP5-166-2 & Dual Processor in DOS, but not in NT4
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