ACPI multiprocessor PC

[maksik]

Hi,this is my story:
I had ASUS CUV4X board with only one CPU - PIII-733 FCPGA
My system was defined in device manager as "ACPI single processor PC".
Later I installed another CPU(the same as above) and my system now is "ACPI multiprocessor PC" and here I got all the problems:
DiVX and DVD cannot be played, I mean I can play it but movie all the time jumps FORWARDfor few seconds and then plays Ok and jumps again... It's not resyncronization,no, video and sound are Ok it just jumps ... If I change driver for system back to single processor it's OK... :( What could it be?

[chemmajik]

I maybe wrong but you may have to define only the first cpu for video & sblive use. Does this happen using another player then wmp6.4?

[omol]

Originally posted by maksik
Hi,this is my story:
I had ASUS CUV4X board with only one CPU - PIII-733 FCPGA
My system was defined in device manager as "ACPI single processor PC".
Later I installed another CPU(the same as above) and my system now is "ACPI multiprocessor PC" and here I got all the problems:
DiVX and DVD cannot be played, I mean I can play it but movie all the time jumps FORWARDfor few seconds and then plays Ok and jumps again... It's not resyncronization,no, video and sound are Ok it just jumps ... If I change driver for system back to single processor it's OK... :( What could it be?

Use M$ stock sblive driver.

regards
omol

[maksik]

1. it's not SBLive it's just Audio PCI128 and win2000 can't find it itself...
2. It happens not only in WMP6.4 but also in MicroDVD player,
Playa(if I install 4.11 or 4.12) and in Power DVD 4.0...
About two processors - yes you're right, when I set affinity for mplayer2.exe process or others described above -it's better but still not good(by the way how can I set it permanent? cause if i restart application settings are gone...)
Only if you define ACPI SINGLEprocessor PC - it works fine...

[maksik]

Hey, guys! Can someone help? I can't belive that no one is using multiprocessor computer....

[omol]

Originally posted by maksik
Hey, guys! Can someone help? I can't belive that no one is using multiprocessor computer....

Did you reinstall W2k after putting in another CPU? Sometimes the hal.dll _DOES_NOT_ get updated properly if you use the device manager.

regards,
omol

[maksik]

omol

thanks, yes I did, not even once...
Win2k server detects itself that configuration I have...

[omol]

Originally posted by maksik
omol

thanks, yes I did, not even once...
Win2k server detects itself that configuration I have...

If it still doesn't work, try disabling ACPI and reinstall the hal.dll (this maybe tricky though). ACPI in win2k is not very robust.

regards,
omol

[Sven Bent]

Hey, guys! Can someone help? I can't belive that no one is using multiprocessor computer....

What can i say. my system just runs without truobles...but hey. i didn't go for a crappy via board either :-)

i just tried building a SQL server on the same baord... it REALLY sucks..sorry :-(



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[maksik]

Oh, the configuration is wonderfull! But the answer here is WinXP, I think. I should try it instead of Win2000Server.
The problem is NOT hardware as I understand, but software that doesn't know how to support dual configurations...
The problem If u remember is SOFTWARE playback - both DVD with software player and DIVX, BUT if I use Hollywood card and it's player
it works fine...

[maksik]

Well, I think we found some solution for my problem - WindowsXPPro
Works great with all kind of medias...
But each windows comes with it's own problems... Remember, Microsoft
dropped some scsi card drivers from XP installation CD?
Yes, you're right I have Diamond Fireport 40 Ultra and there no drivers for it in WinXP ;-( and Diamond doesn't exist any more and S3
doesn't support old diamond products...

[Muzzy]

I had the same problem when I ran Win2k with my dual P3 1ghz cpu's. All that was required was to set the affinity of the program to choose CPU 0 and that was it. Apparently the program didn't like being bumped around or running on both cpu's (not sure what the case was but forcing it to the first CPU solved the problem).

You can do this every time you run the program or you can use IMAGECFG.EXE (I think its on the resource kit cd) to fix the cpu choice on the exe file permanently.


I too have found that XP Pro is better. Once I switched to XP Pro, I have had no problems.

[maksik]

2 Muzzy

Well, thanks, but it's not actual any more, XpPro doing just great...

By the way, affinity was not the perfect solution, it made playback
better, but still a litle jumpy, but thanks anyway...

And about Fireport40 SCSI card, if anyone interested, you can force it to work with XP, even there is no driver for it, you can force it
to use an old NT driver and it works.