Dual CPU Support?

[Guest messiur_geek]

Hello. I am building a system that will use XP SP3. Its motherboard has 2

slots for Xeon processors, and both will be full with Xeon dual-core 2.4GHz

processors that use the x86 instruction set. Will I be able to use both in

XPSP3?

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: Dual CPU Support?

 

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 14:03:00 -0700, messiur_geek

<messiur_geek@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Hello. I am building a system that will use XP SP3. Its motherboard has 2

> slots for Xeon processors, and both will be full with Xeon dual-core 2.4GHz

> processors that use the x86 instruction set. Will I be able to use both in

> XPSP3?

 

 

If you run XP Professional, yes. If you run XP Home, no. XP Home will

use only one of them.

 

--

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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[Guest Thee Chicago Wolf]

Re: Dual CPU Support?

 

>Hello. I am building a system that will use XP SP3. Its motherboard has 2

>slots for Xeon processors, and both will be full with Xeon dual-core 2.4GHz

>processors that use the x86 instruction set. Will I be able to use both in

>XPSP3?

 

XP Pro will. And I also recommend you slipstream SP3 into your install

CD if not already as some of the updates in SP3 are specific to system

that will be using more than a single core CPU.

 

- Thee Chicago Wolf

[Guest Patrick Keenan]

Re: Dual CPU Support?

 

"messiur_geek" <messiur_geek@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:C70D249A-C900-4153-A00F-165FC82197BF@microsoft.com...

> Hello. I am building a system that will use XP SP3. Its motherboard has 2

> slots for Xeon processors, and both will be full with Xeon dual-core

> 2.4GHz

> processors that use the x86 instruction set. Will I be able to use both in

> XPSP3?

 

If your XP version is Pro, not Home. The SP version is not relevant.

 

XP Home supports only one physical processor (but does handle multiple cores

on single processors).

 

HTH

-pk