I7 860 showing only 2 cores

Try running MSCONFIG and manually configuring how many CPU cores windows sees.
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OwinC

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I totally forgot about that.

Some of us. Myself included. Have gone into the BIOS and went click happy. Trying out different settings. And forgetting what all was selected and where it was.