upgrade issues going to X2

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jfkriege

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I have taken the plunge and gone dual core. I took my 939 system and threw it in a stacker 810 with a new ninja on a 4600. My old system was a 3000 Venice on stock hs. It was overclocked a little, but i was waiting for the dual cores to come down a little.

My issue is that hal.dll is corupt or missing. I have installed a fresh copy of XP Pro on another hd i keep for this reason. I tried to copy a new one over, but i think i ran into issues that they were from differing service packs, i can try again later today with the same sp. If I need to reformat I can, I have a full backup of essential files that I do weekly.

I also am wondering what optimization needs to be done once up and running.

So far temps are great. At idle i am looking at 32 in a room that is 28. I will take that. Airflow around the cpu is amazing compared to my old case. I love the stacker.

Questions are:

1. Can I fix the hal.dll problem and get into windows again or should I just reformat?

2. What should I be looking at doing to make sure i am getting all of the stock performance out of the proc before I begin to overclock? I have a good idea, but wanted to make sure I was on the right track.
 
Yeah i would like to know the same thing, wow i competly forgot to look in to this before buying my 4200x2, i dont want to format so is there away around it
 
thank you for the links.

any words on the optimization of the system for dual core?
 
I know that some applications or games have issues with a dual core system and have been known to run a slower without help.

joshua
 
Use either the program SetAffinity to change permanently, or for per-run, in task manager, right-click the process and under Set Affinity, set it to use only one core. That will fix 99% of the problems.

AMD also has a patch for dual-cores, just look around on their site and you should find it.
 
There is a Dual core Thread on here that has everything you need to know. I bought a x2 4200+, applied all the hot fixes etc and used the switch /usepmtimer and still I had probelms; came down to just upgradeing the bios for the mobo. So make sure everything is updated and you should be fine.
 
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