Quad core only using 1 core? HELP

xOmniDevil

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Hi i'm having a problem with my PC and I've tryed everything there is and so far I've made it worst, I have a Intel i7 860 4 core processor 8 threads. I was looking at my sofware I use to check my cooling for my CPU, GPU, Motherboard, etc. and I see that at first I was running 4 cores and now Im running at 2 cores 4 threads. I went to msconfig and see if I can go back to 4 cores. At the time no matter what it just didnt work, So now what I did was moved it down to 1 core and see if it was working and then move it back where it was. So I did and I see now im only running at 1 core 1 thread and now when I want to go back it wont let me anymore... It suck at 1 core and then when I try to move it up it only gives me a option of only 1 core and no further. I did a System Restore from March 18, 2015 and today is March 22 2015, after that it still runs only at 1 core. I really need help because some of my games take up to 2 or even 4 cores and I cant play them because im stuck at 1.
 

OrackBobama

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Try using a core parking disabling utility, like this one here;
http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility

Press unpark all, reboot, have a look in task manager. Also make sure your OS isnt doing any funky power saving things.

Good luck!