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Old March 31st, 2006, 09:40 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Windows XP patch for opterons??

Hey guys,

I seem to recall that some people have installed a patch of some sort when using an opteron 1xx under windows XP.

I haven't done this, and I'd like to know where I can find it.

I don't mean the powernow patch.

Thanks for any info

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Old April 1st, 2006, 03:47 PM     #2 (permalink)
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Microsoft recently released a "special fix" for dual cored cpu systems when installing their
Service Pack 2 for the first time on an existing installation. This was for noted performance
drops system wide after that service pack was added. While the title of the MS page states
for multi processor systems it also covers the newer dual cored machines. This article can be
read at: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=896256
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