Hey guys i ran Sandra on my PC and it CAME up with a interesting suggestion for increased performance...

"Tip T2532 - The MP system supports more CPUs than installed. Generally in order to use such a board to its full potential all CPUs should be installed.

Fix: Add more CPUs up to the maximum. You may need to upgrade the BIOS, the OS kernel, device drivers and various settings to take advantage of the new CPUs. Make sure they are all utilised by the system after installation."

And

"Warning W2540 - No APIC has been detected for this MP system. All modern MP systems should contain an APIC; some advanced single-CPU systems may also contain one.

Fix: Check BIOS settings and enable the APIC."


As i said, i'm using a M2NPV-VM witch only has one CPU slot...i am using a AMD duel core chip, on xp pro so im kind of worried i have it set up wrong now and at worst its IGNORING one core

Any help or tips? i see nothing in my bios about a APIC option
click start > run > type "devmgmt.msc" without the quotes > hit the + sign on the left hand side of "Processors". you should see two identical processors.
Yeah device manager can see them but whats i want to know is about the MP and APIC stuff

Windows can see my 4gig ram, doesn't mean its using it right >.
as for your 4gigs, windows will not see all 4 gigs of RAM unless you have a 64bit version of windows. you should expect to see 3gb-3.25gb's of RAM being recognized in a 32bit version of windows.Yeah thats what i was getting at

APIC is advanced programmable interrupt controller or something like that..after updating my bios and LOOKING in every nook and cranny it seems it is enabled...must just be Sandra bugging outACPI.

Sandra is known to mis-report certain setups...
STILL a fine utility but don't take everything as Gospel.
Belarc Advisor is guilty of this as well....yeah apparently

BTW it is APIC not APCI (Advanced Configuration Power Interface)

I knew some single core CPU's can support APIC but every multi core needs it as a way to send interrupts to multiple cores to simulate SIMULTANEOUS processing(hence why i was worried). ACPI is to do with power allocation etc