I recently installed a new hard disk in my single-processor, P4
system.

I installed Windows 2000, but every so often by PC spontaneously
reboots.
I've been trying to track down the cause of the problem to no avail.

As I'm a software engineer, I just ran the Task Manager to monitor
memory, as a first check for memory leaks in my program.
It was then that I spotted that Task Manager was displaying 2 CPU
usage graphs, so it's obviously under the impression that I have 2
CPUs.

However, when I look at the General tab of the System control panel
applet, there's no mention of it being dual-processor as it normally
would if that was the case.

It makes me wonder whether the spontaneous reboots are caused by
Windows trying to allocate a process to its imaginary second CPU.

Has anyone come across this before? It's a single-CPU motherboard.

Anyone know how to fix it, or am I looking at a re-installation?



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Chimaera