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ok, i have a q9550 cpu on a msi p45 platnium p45 mobo. and one day i go to get on the computer, and one of vistas gadget things detects only 2 cores, and i thought "WTF??" and looked at blackbox64, cpuz, hwmonitor, coretemp and they all report only three cores on my quad core! why would it do this all the sudden after 3 months of being a normal 4 core quad core?

any help would be greatly appriciated! i have no idea what to do..!
thanks in advance
-Josh
 

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ok, yeah i had it overclocked to 3.0Ghz, with an 8.0 multiplier, the 8.5 multiplier never works, so its stock speed is 2.64 instead of 2.83. I am going to try and flash my bios, but i dont know why it would do that all the sudden...


and i returned it to optimized settings and the 4th core is still not there... and let me get on that computer and i'll try to upload a screenshot...

 

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yeah, if was vistas fault i wouldn't be surprised... haha

but anyways, here's a cpuz screenshot...
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hopefully it works...

 

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ok, i will do that next time...


and the device manager says i have 4 unkown devices under the processor tab, so that hasnt changed, but nothing else will detect the 4th core
 
Does it show up properly in Task Manager?

You should have 4 processor activity graphs under the performance tab. If you don't, there's a problem with the computer. If you do, it's a problem with your monitoring software.
 

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ok, under task manager there is only 3 graphs for the processor... oh and it only detects 6974 Mb of my 8192 mbs of ram... wtf?

i can NOT WAIT for windows 7! i am so tired of vista! lol



but ok, im going to try unistalling my processor
 

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ok, the unistalling the processor didnt work, so now i just flashed my bios and am going to check to see if it worked,


and what type of problems are you talking about? :heink:
 

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Ok dude here is what you do. Hit start>run>msconfig. Then go to Boot>advanced options. If "Number of Processors" is checked, uncheck it and all cores should be enabled.
 

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ok sweet that worked, but why would it change my settings? i had it setup to use 4 cores, and all of my ram...

well i guess if you have vista, something will always be wrong...

thank you all very much for the help!
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