Give warning for x64, removing AMD CPU w/Intel CPU

[urbanriot]

If you remove AMD CPU when nliting your Windows XP x64 it will cause issues on an Intel based system, since those bits are needed for x64 Windows in general regardless of what CPU you have. It would be "smart" if the ability to remove AMD CPU was not allowed whatsoever for XP x64.

[nuhi]

Seems kinda stretched, have you actually had any issues or just guessing?

[urbanriot]

Seems kinda stretched, have you actually had any issues or just guessing?

While it should be intelligently assumed that removing this might cause a problem since XP x64 was developed directly for AMD x64 CPU's, I wouldn't have written that if I was just guessing.

No, what happens is you end up with at least one bang in device manager for the missing driver for your Intel CPU. I've verified this with both a QX6700 and a couple quad xeons. I have zero idea if this will give you a performance detriment or if it's simply a minor annoyance.

If you remove AMD CPU, your Intel CPU won't have a driver in Windows. Therefore, rationally, that feature should have a warning to the user that this might be the case.

[kane3162]

then their has to be some aspect of x64 to be removed from the x64 driver for AMD specifically... maybe a look from the first nlite to current and then a look over the latest patched windows to find out what has changed..... (im to tired to actually make sense of what im saying but it has the general idea)

[shaggy]

I think its down to Intel using AMD 64-bit extension in there 64-bit cpu's.