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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Krusty on May 08, 2007, 10:50:03 AM
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I ran the patch and did the registry change as outlined in Skuzzy's locked thread in the tech support forum. I just went from an old CPU to a Conroe core.
RedTop posted his specs, and Odee or TexVA or somebody mentioned he should have a line in his boot.ini and was mentioning the /usepmtimer line, but I noticed something else in there.
"/numproc=2" was also on the same line.
I tried it out. I didn't get any BSDs but didn't notice anything good either.. What does this do? My first intuition is that it specifies to the OS that there are 2 processors instead of just 1.
Is that automatic, and should I remove this option from my boot.ini?
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Number of processors is set by the Windows HAL.
Single CPU HAL = ACPI Uniprocessor PC
Multiple cores/CPU HAL = ACPI Multiprocessor PC
You can check the HAL used from the device manager under the "Computer" entry.
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Found this for ya, Krusty.
/NUMPROC=
Specifies the number of CPUs that can be used on a multiprocessor system. Example: /NUMPROC=2 on a four-way system will prevent Windows from using two of the four processors.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/information/bootini.mspx
Good luck,
Sun
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Well my HAL is listed as "multiprocessor" under the device manager where Kev said, and Sun found the general description of it... I'm going to leave it in place.
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(http://henrickpalsson.blogg.se/images/hal_2000_1158593832.jpg)
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Originally posted by Fulmar
(http://henrickpalsson.blogg.se/images/hal_2000_1158593832.jpg)
[on Dave's return to the ship, after HAL has killed the rest of the crew]
HAL: Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
Regards,
Sun