Getting Windows XP off of domains

[sciguy125]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

For some unfathomable reason, whoever installed the OS didn't make the 2^nd processor visible to the OS (either by not enabling it in the BIOS, by physically removing it, or by installing while connected to a different motherboard).

I've never tried it with XP, but when I did major hardware upgrades, I used to just transplant the hard drive and let windows sort itself out. For the most part, it was able to figure out the new hardware and install new drivers on its own. If you say XP needs to see the second processor during install, maybe the hard drive doesn't belong to this system?

Now don't you wish you were using linux so that you just have to change your kernel to get multiprocessor? That reminds me. Sanddrag was playing with various linux distros some time ago and apparently still has at least one lying around. If I recall, Knoppix has an smp kernel. If you have it around, you can boot it, get a command prompt, and do "cat /proc/cpuinfo". It should spit out info about each processor.