Question about 'Making Sure the Correct HAL is Installed'
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 10:26 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Adam Poston
(1 messages posted)
I have a comment about Making
Sure the Correct HAL is Installed:
ACPI HAL Multiprocessor Fix.
Perform the following steps on a workstation that has multiprocessor core available
and currently is not showing both processors in the task manager. (Not showing both
processors means in the task manager does mean that the 2nd processor is not being
used.)
>START
>Right Click MY COMPUTER
>MANAGE>DEVICE MANAGER
>Expand COMPUTER
>Right Click ACPI
>PROPERTIES
>DRIVER
> Choose ROLL BACK DRIVER
When you choose ROLL BACK DRIVER the machine will want to reboot. Since every XP
Professional machine has all available HAL’s it will automatically identify the correct
HAL that should be on the machine. Allow the machine to reboot and you should then
be in the ACPI Multiprocessor Mode. To verify go to task manager and look to see
if both processors’ details are shown. Verification can be performed also by looking
in the DEVICE MANAGER under the COMPUTER option and the setting should now read ACPI
Multiprocessor. There may be one error that gets presented that requests the location
of a driver. XP should default to that location. Choose RETRY and it will complete
the install.
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