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Windows 2000 Server, which is a SERVER OS, built to stay up forever requires you to do the following when adding a second CPU.
1: Put in CPU
2: Change ACPI to Multiprocessor via driver.

Reboot.

Windows XP, which came out later…..
REPAIR INSTALLATION….
The L33ten sayeth: Manually rip out multiprocessor hal from XP cd and change urself. reboot.
M$ Sayeth: No…Repair Install.

Portrait of a Nester-san three days later…..^&$^$#^&#$^%#%@#$%@.
(Whispering madly to himself, while boxen hangs at dreaded 34 Minute Mark)

Oh, for those who dont know, the 34 minute mark in the setup is when XP detects your hardware, and attempts to load drivers….What it can’t load or find, it don’t skip like a smart OS.

NO, the POS Just sits like an idiot grinning it’s fool head off.

M$ Says: To Fix, just reboot each time it happens, it will eventually skip the hardware and then you can continue.

MI RASSCLAAT….

3 Fucking Days of Reboots to get your OS to install three files about 256 Kb in size ?
Why do they do everything ass backwards ?

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