Upgraded CPU issues

[tsitalon1]

Hey guys,

I knew my AMD Athlon 3000+ wasn't enough for all I wanted to do... So I bought an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ CPU.

Here is my problem, after install of new CPU, system booted fine, stated that it found the new CPU's and requested I reboot to complete the driver install. The system would not boot into normal mode after that point.

I was able to go into Safe mode and install the most current AMD drivers from their website. It still did not resolve the issue. I stuck a scrap harddrive in and performed a test full clean install, this worked fine. I did notice something though.

In Device Manager under "processors" there were some discrepences:

Clean install = "AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+"
Upgraded os = "AMD K8 Processor"
original os = "AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+"

So why is my "upgraded" OS not identifying the CPU correctly. I have SP2 in all my testing and used the same AMD driver package from 2006.

Any ideas guys?


MSI ms-7125 MB

[Djc208]

My guess would be (and it is a guess) that there are some files/drivers in XP that were not installed or corrupted on the original OS. You might try re-running the install process on the original OS to let it "repair" the install.

[Polypro]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/309283

What's the HAL say?

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[tsitalon1]

It says "ACPI Multiprocessor"

The same as the clean install test. Thanks for trying!