Originally posted by: BillClo
You'll hear many stories of drop in and go. I had to reinstall to get rid of some gremlins.
As do most people, including the ones who swore (at first) that it was a drop in replacement. The next time they reinstall, they always say "I wish I had just done that to begin with. It got rid of all of the problems I had been having."Originally posted by: BillClo
You'll hear many stories of drop in and go. I had to reinstall to get rid of some gremlins.
No wonder you haven't had any problems, you're still running on one core. Windows doesn't know you have two cores until you install the dual-core driver.Originally posted by: Brunnis
I went from a 3500+ to an X2 3800+ with absolutely zero problems. Didn't even have to install any drivers.
I didn't install dual core drivers in my system and it sees both cores, that depends on the right HAL being installed in Windows. To make sure it reinstalls the HAL when you boot up with the dual core, go into Device Manager and uninstall the "Computer" device (ACPI Uniprocessor PC is what it's called IIRC) and it'll install the Multiprocessor HAL when you boot up the next time. Just make sure to have the latest BIOS installed and there shouldn't be any problems.Originally posted by: myocardia
No wonder you haven't had any problems, you're still running on one core. Windows doesn't know you have two cores until you install the dual-core driver.Originally posted by: Brunnis
I went from a 3500+ to an X2 3800+ with absolutely zero problems. Didn't even have to install any drivers.
Originally posted by: MDE
I didn't install dual core drivers in my system and it sees both cores, that depends on the right HAL being installed in Windows. To make sure it reinstalls the HAL when you boot up with the dual core, go into Device Manager and uninstall the "Computer" device (ACPI Uniprocessor PC is what it's called IIRC) and it'll install the Multiprocessor HAL when you boot up the next time. Just make sure to have the latest BIOS installed and there shouldn't be any problems.Originally posted by: myocardia
No wonder you haven't had any problems, you're still running on one core. Windows doesn't know you have two cores until you install the dual-core driver.Originally posted by: Brunnis
I went from a 3500+ to an X2 3800+ with absolutely zero problems. Didn't even have to install any drivers.