Installing New CPU Question

[razor5000]

Needing a bit of advice.
Server Specifications:

Intel Celeron D 2.80Ghz (Prescott)
ASRock 775i65G
1Gb Memory
Windows XP SP2

As this computer is used as a server which I mainly use for backing up all the networked computers and use it for media server and a file server any down time would not be welcome, though I could if absolutely necessary. My question is if I install a Intel E2140 CPU would I have to reinstall Windows? Could I just install with Windows detecting it has two cores and display both cores in Task Manager?

Checking google mostly show people with AMD systems trying with differing levels of success and not many with Intel systems.

Anyway any help would be appreciated

razor

 

[zsdersw]

No you don't. At most, you'll have to change something in Device Manager.

Using XP as a server seems a bit iffy, to me. IIRC, XP is limited to serving 10 computers simultaneously.. unless that's enough for you.

 

[razor5000]

That sounds good, what changes in Device Manager?

XP is ok for now, I am hoping to buy Windows Home Server and install that but for the time being XP will do.

Thanks

 

[Regalk]

Check your device manager ("computer") and see whether it is recognizing both cpus
Should say ACPI Multiprocessor PC
Then check processors to see if both recognized further down

If not then you have to change the HAL layer - google for the instructions how to change HAL - I did this a while back and can't remember now

 

[razor5000]

Ok, thanks I have the CPU on order, so can't check now. But this does seem positive.

Thanks for all your help