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MurderinMurphy   03-04-2009 at 03:37:55 AM

Hey all,
I recently bought and installed a Core 2 Quad 6600. Under task manager and cpu-z, however, it is only showing up as 2 cores. I have the EIST and C1E functions disabled already. Does anyone have any other ideas?

Murphy

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Yomamafor1   03-04-2009 at 06:33:57 AM
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You should try updating the BIOS. If that still doesn't work, you should ask for a RMA for the motherboard.

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Raydog   03-04-2009 at 06:35:56 PM
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Make sure all 4 cores are enabled in the bios. what motherboard do u have??

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MurderinMurphy   03-04-2009 at 07:53:55 PM
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Hey all,
Managed to figure out what the problem was. I was upgrading from a Core2Duo to a Core2Quad in a current build. Vista has some kind of pseudo drivers under device manager for processors. When I put in the new processor it recognized the Quad Core, but even after removing the Dual Core "drivers" it still wouldn't show 4 cores. I reinstalled the OS and now all 4 cores show up fine. Just another great attribute of Vista.

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Helloworld_98   03-04-2009 at 08:04:38 PM
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No that happens with all oses(SP?)

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cjl   03-04-2009 at 09:06:08 PM
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It has nothing to do with Vista - XP will do the same, as will any current OS.

You should always do a complete reinstall when changing a major component like a motherboard or a CPU.

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