Win XP x64 & Dual-Core detection.

I know, I have seen something on this before, but cannot find the thread on
it now.
I have the following system, I am putting together and Windows finds and
lists the AMD Athlon 64 X2 +4800, but does not list both cores.

Motherboard K8N Neo4 Platinum Edition, nForce 4 Ultra chipset.
Memory 2 ea. Corsair TWINC2048-3200C2PRO for 4MB.
Graphics Card Spphire\Radeon X800LX 64 Bit Edition\PSI Express 16x
DVD/CD LG, 16X Super Multi DVD/CD Rewriter
Power Supply Thermaltake W0057, 500W

This is my third Dual-Core AMD 64 system, never had to do anything special
to get windows to detect second Core on the other systems.

Charlie
Tue Oct 04 00:13:50 CDT 2005

Motherboard drivers, updated BIOS, or AMD drivers, in that order. First two
come from Asus, last one direct off the AMD site.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64

RogerP wrote:
> I know, I have seen something on this before, but cannot find the thread
> on it now.
> I have the following system, I am putting together and Windows finds and
> lists the AMD Athlon 64 X2 +4800, but does not list both cores.
>
> Motherboard K8N Neo4 Platinum Edition, nForce 4 Ultra chipset.
> Memory 2 ea. Corsair TWINC2048-3200C2PRO for 4MB.
> Graphics Card Spphire\Radeon X800LX 64 Bit Edition\PSI Express 16x
> DVD/CD LG, 16X Super Multi DVD/CD Rewriter
> Power Supply Thermaltake W0057, 500W
>
> This is my third Dual-Core AMD 64 system, never had to do anything special
> to get windows to detect second Core on the other systems.

Niels
Tue Oct 04 00:21:23 CDT 2005

> I know, I have seen something on this before, but cannot find the
> thread on
> it now.
> I have the following system, I am putting together and Windows finds
> and
> lists the AMD Athlon 64 X2 +4800, but does not list both cores.

Hmm strange, as you I have an AMD dual core (X2 +4400), which both XP64 and
Win 2003 Server works flawlessly on. I.e. it finds both cores etc. Anyway,
quite a while ago it was a discussion here about AMD drivers for windows
for dual core processors. I googled and came up with this link:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/utilities/amdcpu64.exe

See if it helps.

Niels

Dominic
Tue Oct 04 02:56:00 CDT 2005

See
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_cpu_support_detail.php?UID=637&kind=1

Dual core processors need a BIOS update and many boards have been shipped
with an old BIOS which will not recognise both cores.

I think your motherboard needs at least BIOS 1.9 to recognise both cores.

http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?board=28.0 is a good forum for problems
with MSI boards with nVidia chipsets.



"RogerP" <RogerP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7CE973A9-2063-4175-A72E-36D446186D38@microsoft.com...
>I know, I have seen something on this before, but cannot find the thread on
> it now.
> I have the following system, I am putting together and Windows finds and
> lists the AMD Athlon 64 X2 +4800, but does not list both cores.
>
> Motherboard K8N Neo4 Platinum Edition, nForce 4 Ultra chipset.
> Memory 2 ea. Corsair TWINC2048-3200C2PRO for 4MB.
> Graphics Card Spphire\Radeon X800LX 64 Bit Edition\PSI Express 16x
> DVD/CD LG, 16X Super Multi DVD/CD Rewriter
> Power Supply Thermaltake W0057, 500W
>
> This is my third Dual-Core AMD 64 system, never had to do anything special
> to get windows to detect second Core on the other systems.
>

RogerP
Tue Oct 04 10:13:27 CDT 2005

I am using BIOS V1.9, first thing I do anymore when building a system, soon a
floppy works upgrade to latest BIOS.
Thanks for the link to MSI's Form, been looking for it, but had not found it.

Thanks Again,
Roger

"Dominic Payer" wrote:

> See
> http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_cpu_support_detail.php?UID=637&kind=1
>
> Dual core processors need a BIOS update and many boards have been shipped
> with an old BIOS which will not recognise both cores.
>
> I think your motherboard needs at least BIOS 1.9 to recognise both cores.
>
> http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?board=28.0 is a good forum for problems
> with MSI boards with nVidia chipsets.
>
>
>
> "RogerP" <RogerP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7CE973A9-2063-4175-A72E-36D446186D38@microsoft.com...
> >I know, I have seen something on this before, but cannot find the thread on
> > it now.
> > I have the following system, I am putting together and Windows finds and
> > lists the AMD Athlon 64 X2 +4800, but does not list both cores.
> >
> > Motherboard K8N Neo4 Platinum Edition, nForce 4 Ultra chipset.
> > Memory 2 ea. Corsair TWINC2048-3200C2PRO for 4MB.
> > Graphics Card Spphire\Radeon X800LX 64 Bit Edition\PSI Express 16x
> > DVD/CD LG, 16X Super Multi DVD/CD Rewriter
> > Power Supply Thermaltake W0057, 500W
> >
> > This is my third Dual-Core AMD 64 system, never had to do anything special
> > to get windows to detect second Core on the other systems.
> >
>
>
>

RogerP
Tue Oct 04 10:56:14 CDT 2005

Thanks for the Info CPU, but I think I have received a mismarked Processor
from AMD.
Down loaded and installed the 64 Bit dual core driver from AMD, but windows
still showed single core.
Downloaded and installed AMD's CPU Info program, It also reports AMD Athlon
64 X2 +4800 with data on only one core. All data displayed is for Core 0, no
listing for Core 1.

Is there anything else I could be doing wrong?

Installing the CPU driver from AMD did fix one other problem. Windows was
reporting new hardware at startup and autoloading its drivers, then stating
you had to restart windows to use the hardware. All without telling you what
the hardware is, which is no problem if the drivers work. I had thought the
CPU drivers were the problem, but MSI does not list any for the CPU. As,
Windows was no detecting both cores. I started with problem I atlest new
what the problems, turnes out both problems have same cause.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Roger

"Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:

> Motherboard drivers, updated BIOS, or AMD drivers, in that order. First two
> come from Asus, last one direct off the AMD site.
>
> --
> Charlie.
> http://msmvps.com/xperts64
>
> RogerP wrote:
> > I know, I have seen something on this before, but cannot find the thread
> > on it now.
> > I have the following system, I am putting together and Windows finds and
> > lists the AMD Athlon 64 X2 +4800, but does not list both cores.
> >
> > Motherboard K8N Neo4 Platinum Edition, nForce 4 Ultra chipset.
> > Memory 2 ea. Corsair TWINC2048-3200C2PRO for 4MB.
> > Graphics Card Spphire\Radeon X800LX 64 Bit Edition\PSI Express 16x
> > DVD/CD LG, 16X Super Multi DVD/CD Rewriter
> > Power Supply Thermaltake W0057, 500W
> >
> > This is my third Dual-Core AMD 64 system, never had to do anything special
> > to get windows to detect second Core on the other systems.
>
>
>

John
Tue Oct 04 11:14:21 CDT 2005

Did you update the BIOS like Charlie recommended also. Many MOBO require
the latest BIOS to run the x2 properly


"RogerP" <RogerP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:490A31D8-1B38-400B-9AA3-B6286E810006@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for the Info CPU, but I think I have received a mismarked Processor
> from AMD.
> Down loaded and installed the 64 Bit dual core driver from AMD, but
> windows
> still showed single core.
> Downloaded and installed AMD's CPU Info program, It also reports AMD
> Athlon
> 64 X2 +4800 with data on only one core. All data displayed is for Core 0,
> no
> listing for Core 1.
>
> Is there anything else I could be doing wrong?
>
> Installing the CPU driver from AMD did fix one other problem. Windows was
> reporting new hardware at startup and autoloading its drivers, then
> stating
> you had to restart windows to use the hardware. All without telling you
> what
> the hardware is, which is no problem if the drivers work. I had thought
> the
> CPU drivers were the problem, but MSI does not list any for the CPU. As,
> Windows was no detecting both cores. I started with problem I atlest new
> what the problems, turnes out both problems have same cause.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Roger
>
> "Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:
>
>> Motherboard drivers, updated BIOS, or AMD drivers, in that order. First
>> two
>> come from Asus, last one direct off the AMD site.
>>
>> --
>> Charlie.
>> http://msmvps.com/xperts64
>>
>> RogerP wrote:
>> > I know, I have seen something on this before, but cannot find the
>> > thread
>> > on it now.
>> > I have the following system, I am putting together and Windows finds
>> > and
>> > lists the AMD Athlon 64 X2 +4800, but does not list both cores.
>> >
>> > Motherboard K8N Neo4 Platinum Edition, nForce 4 Ultra chipset.
>> > Memory 2 ea. Corsair TWINC2048-3200C2PRO for 4MB.
>> > Graphics Card Spphire\Radeon X800LX 64 Bit Edition\PSI Express 16x
>> > DVD/CD LG, 16X Super Multi DVD/CD Rewriter
>> > Power Supply Thermaltake W0057, 500W
>> >
>> > This is my third Dual-Core AMD 64 system, never had to do anything
>> > special
>> > to get windows to detect second Core on the other systems.
>>
>>
>>

Rick
Tue Oct 04 11:15:26 CDT 2005

Try a utility like CPU-Z, http://www.cpuid.org/cpuz.php

CPU-Z should correctly identify you CPU and if both cores are
functioning, it should give you a pull down to switch between the 2 cores.


RogerP wrote:
> Thanks for the Info CPU, but I think I have received a mismarked Processor
> from AMD.
> Down loaded and installed the 64 Bit dual core driver from AMD, but windows
> still showed single core.
> Downloaded and installed AMD's CPU Info program, It also reports AMD Athlon
> 64 X2 +4800 with data on only one core. All data displayed is for Core 0, no
> listing for Core 1.
>
> Is there anything else I could be doing wrong?
>
> Installing the CPU driver from AMD did fix one other problem. Windows was
> reporting new hardware at startup and autoloading its drivers, then stating
> you had to restart windows to use the hardware. All without telling you what
> the hardware is, which is no problem if the drivers work. I had thought the
> CPU drivers were the problem, but MSI does not list any for the CPU. As,
> Windows was no detecting both cores. I started with problem I atlest new
> what the problems, turnes out both problems have same cause.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Roger
>
> "Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:
>
>
>>Motherboard drivers, updated BIOS, or AMD drivers, in that order. First two
>>come from Asus, last one direct off the AMD site.
>>
>>--
>>Charlie.
>>http://msmvps.com/xperts64
>>
>>RogerP wrote:
>>
>>>I know, I have seen something on this before, but cannot find the thread
>>>on it now.
>>>I have the following system, I am putting together and Windows finds and
>>>lists the AMD Athlon 64 X2 +4800, but does not list both cores.
>>>
>>>Motherboard K8N Neo4 Platinum Edition, nForce 4 Ultra chipset.
>>>Memory 2 ea. Corsair TWINC2048-3200C2PRO for 4MB.
>>>Graphics Card Spphire\Radeon X800LX 64 Bit Edition\PSI Express 16x
>>>DVD/CD LG, 16X Super Multi DVD/CD Rewriter
>>>Power Supply Thermaltake W0057, 500W
>>>
>>>This is my third Dual-Core AMD 64 system, never had to do anything special
>>>to get windows to detect second Core on the other systems.
>>
>>
>>