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Disabling second processor

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by jdolim

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I'm using Nt Terminal Server & want to disable second processor (Dell Poweredge 2400 w/ dual 733)

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John

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by bigduck

I have used this trick many times on the exact same piece of hardware to do the same thing.

If you want only one processor to be used you have to modify the boot.ini file found in the root. Boot.ini has the read only and hidden attributes set, you will need to change them before you can modify the file.

1. At the command prompt: attrib -h -r -s boot.ini

OR

2. NT Explorer - Menu View - Options - view - show all files - OK

Click on boot.ini - menu - File - Properties - General - uncheck Read-only - OK

Open Boot.ini in a editor and add the following line:

/numproc=1

or if the line already exists change the value to 1.

save the file and reboot.

After NT comes back up it should only register a single processor.
When you want to return the other processor back to service, then change the value to 2.

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