L
Lex
Recently I decided to check up on my machine. I wanted to check for
conflicts. So I opened MS System Information. Everything was fine...apart
from the first page. On the first page, I have 2 processors listed. So to
check, I went to the Environment Variables and looked at
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS variable...and sure enough it said there were 2 (oh
dear). My board doesn't even have the capability for dual processor,
nevermind actually having it!
As a final check I went to dxdiag. Once again, I got the report that there
were 2 processors. No new hardware has been installed since I installed
Windows 2000 Pro (quite some time ago) just bits and bobs of new software,
such as firewall updates, service packs etc. Nothing that I would
particularly expect to cause this.
I tried changing the processor environment variable to 1, and then
restarting, but it just came back as 2.
My Sytem:
P4P800D MoBo.
P4 2.6Ghz Processor (800Mhz FSB)
1024MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9600SE 128MB Graphics card.
Despite the fact that I have a DVD writer, I'm still reluctant to start over
and re-install windows..so I'm looking for solutions here.
The only case in the device manager where there is more than 1 entry for a
system device is Motherboard Resources where there are 3 entries.
There is processor to AGP controller -2571, and Processor to I/O
Controller -2570 but as far as I know that has been there all the time.
conflicts. So I opened MS System Information. Everything was fine...apart
from the first page. On the first page, I have 2 processors listed. So to
check, I went to the Environment Variables and looked at
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS variable...and sure enough it said there were 2 (oh
dear). My board doesn't even have the capability for dual processor,
nevermind actually having it!
As a final check I went to dxdiag. Once again, I got the report that there
were 2 processors. No new hardware has been installed since I installed
Windows 2000 Pro (quite some time ago) just bits and bobs of new software,
such as firewall updates, service packs etc. Nothing that I would
particularly expect to cause this.
I tried changing the processor environment variable to 1, and then
restarting, but it just came back as 2.
My Sytem:
P4P800D MoBo.
P4 2.6Ghz Processor (800Mhz FSB)
1024MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9600SE 128MB Graphics card.
Despite the fact that I have a DVD writer, I'm still reluctant to start over
and re-install windows..so I'm looking for solutions here.
The only case in the device manager where there is more than 1 entry for a
system device is Motherboard Resources where there are 3 entries.
There is processor to AGP controller -2571, and Processor to I/O
Controller -2570 but as far as I know that has been there all the time.