One of my cores disappeared

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by boygenius, Jun 10, 2007.

  1. boygenius

    boygenius Bit poster

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    I decided to try out v3. I installed the software and then told Parallels to use my Boot Camp version of Vista Ultimate. It crashed several times while installing, even to the point of showing me a bsod or two. Eventually, after several starts it got to the point where I could log in to Vista, put in my password and then ..... nothing -- it crashed!

    OK, so now I try to start it up via Boot Camp, just to see whether there's any permanent damage. Yes, there's damage. It won't boot. So I pop in my Ultimate CD and Repair my Vista. Finally I go back and try starting it again in Parallels. It seems to work, but at least one of my programs (Adobe Audition) tells me my license isn't working and I have to reactivate, which I do. But then I restart into boot camp and have to once again activate Audition.

    OK, now this is getting annoying, so I decide to scrap Parallels and just use Boot Camp, but when I run Vista in Boot Camp now, it doesn't seem to register that I have two processors in my Intel Core 2 Duo. My Multimeter sidebar gadget tells me I have just 1x86.

    How do I get my second processor to work again?
     
  2. dkp

    dkp Forum Maven

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    Since you are not using Parallels this sounds like a question for Apple.
     
  3. boygenius

    boygenius Bit poster

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    Perhaps, but it was caused by Parallels and I was wondering how to fix it, but also whether anyone else has had this problem and whether they were able to fix it somehow.
     
  4. simplicity

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    Well, check Task Manager in case the Gadget is wrong or keeping some cached info.

    In the 'old days' of XP, there was a single CPU and multi CPU HAL (hardware abstraction layer.) Parallels used to swap out HALs between boot camp/parallels boots. Every now and then it would screw up and users would see the "unable to load..." errors on booting.

    With Vista, I don't know. I heard reports that MS went to a single HAL, but I'm really not sure. There used to be utilities on XP to let you swap out HALs. I would look for something similar for Vista....
     

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