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LeBo
07-30-2007, 12:06 AM
How may cores can someone run on XP Pro and still be legal or how many will XP Pro run (like quad cores)?
BlackAdder
07-30-2007, 01:23 AM
I didn't think the amount of core's you run have anything to do with the legality of running XP....that is a good question though. :)
PoorBoy
07-30-2007, 01:53 AM
How may cores can someone run on XP Pro and still be legal or how many will XP Pro run (like quad cores)?

Windows XP Pro allows 2 sockets with processors in them (actual processors) and as many cores as you want, as long as they are on two processors ... :)
AQUAJOE
07-31-2007, 04:48 AM
Windows XP Pro allows 2 sockets with processors in them (actual processors) and as many cores as you want, as long as they are on two processors ... :)

Yup Poorboy is correct XP Pro can support only 2 physical processors.

XP Home edition can only support 1 physical processor.
riaan
09-12-2007, 10:40 PM
PoorBoy, do you know of the /PAE boot.ini extension for getting Win 32bit to pick up more than 3GB's of RAM?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/information/bootini.mspx

Has anyone tried this and got it working? Might need some extra options...
PoorBoy
09-13-2007, 12:21 AM
PoorBoy, do you know of the /PAE boot.ini extension for getting Win 32bit to pick up more than 3GB's of RAM?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/information/bootini.mspx

Has anyone tried this and got it working? Might need some extra options...

I've tried to get 4gb to work myself with using the /PAE boot.ini extension but didn't have any luck, all it would read is 3gb. 32-Bit Win XP Pro just doesn't support 4gb of Memory I don't think, from what I've heard Vista does though ...