Hi,

At 04:56 PM 6/13/2002 -0700, Bockhorst, Roland P HQISEC wrote:
>WCPUID recognizes my P4 and its having SSE and SSE2 instructions.

WCPUID uses the CPUID instruction to determine if SSE and SSE2 is supported.

>Prime95V22.3 doesn't.

Prime95 uses the CPUID instruction but also tries to execute an SSE and SSE2
instruction.  If an exception occurs, it is trapped and the CPU is flagged 
as not
supporting the instruction.

>My next step is to upgrade to
>Windows98

I know that when I did my first tests of the memory prefetch on my Win95
Celeron II machine, prime95 would not work.  Upgrading to Win98 fixed the
problem.

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