Under Windows XP Pro. when I right click on My Computer>Properties>General
tab it doesn't show - as my BIOS does - that I have a dual processor system.
Why?

check under system information
"nospam" <nospam@ere.net> wrote in message
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> Under Windows XP Pro. when I right click on My Computer>Properties>General
> tab it doesn't show - as my BIOS does - that I have a dual processor
> system. Why?
>

On 03/01/2006 "nospam" <nospam@ere.net> wrote:
>Under Windows XP Pro. when I right click on My Computer>Properties>General
>tab it doesn't show - as my BIOS does - that I have a dual processor system.
>Why?
>
>

You might need to install/update the motherboard chipset drivers.

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Y.

nospam wrote:
> Under Windows XP Pro. when I right click on My Computer>Properties>General
> tab it doesn't show - as my BIOS does - that I have a dual processor system.

Normal and as expected.

> Why?

Because that's how Microsoft programmed System Properties. It's been
like that since NT4.

Two ways to check that XP Pro sees both processors:

- Open Device Manager and expand the Processors entry
- Open Task Manager and select the Performance tab. You should see a
separate CPU Usage History graph for each processor

Sunny