HP pavilion dv6436nr AMD issue...

External Since: Dec 05, 2007 Posts: 2

Hello everyone....i bought this hp pavilion laptop and it has the amd
turion x2 processor....and i have installed the 32bit windows xp..I
was told that there are some patches that makes windows use both
processors even though it is the 32 bit..Because the processor of the
laptop is 1.8 x2=3.6 but windows only uses the 1.8..I tried to
download some patches from the amd site but i was missing the file
"amdtools.sys" and i couldnt find it anywhere...Can anyone help me out
please??

Thanks,

Sam

External Since: Dec 17, 2005 Posts: 143

samoukos wrote:
> Hello everyone....i bought this hp pavilion laptop and it has the amd
> turion x2 processor....and i have installed the 32bit windows xp..I
> was told that there are some patches that makes windows use both
> processors even though it is the 32 bit..Because the processor of the
> laptop is 1.8 x2=3.6 but windows only uses the 1.8..I tried to
> download some patches from the amd site but i was missing the file
> "amdtools.sys" and i couldnt find it anywhere...Can anyone help me out
> please??

You have mixed up a lot of concepts. Having a dual-core processor
doesn't mean that you have double the Mhz. So a 1.8Ghz doesn't become
3.6Ghz. Second it doesn't matter if you have a 32-bit or a 64-bit
version of Windows XP, they are both able to make use of dual-cores
without any problem.

So you really have no problem. If you don't believe me, then go to
Start->Run and type in "taskman" and go to the Performance tab. You'll
see two processor graphs there. It means XP is seeing both cores.

Yousuf Khan