3 Cores on q6600

[trix0r]

Hey,

My friend is having problems with his q6600, for some reason its only showing 3 cores: http://www.btinternet.com/~sarah.m.gibbs/3cores.JPG

Hes got a GIGABYTE - P35C-DS3R motherboard, not sure what settings and stuff hes using. Any ideas?

 

[oggmonster]

Hmm strange, I would try a BIOS update first then see what happens.

 

[Aod]

on my Gigabyte P35, there's a setting in the bios which limits the "cores" to three for use in computers running Windows 2000, which doesn't support more than 3 processors unless you bought a fancy SMP version. check to see if he's turned it on. it'll be obviously named, like "limit to 3 cores" or something

 

[PaulyD]

...or up volts

 

[Aod]

...or up volts

i'm pretty much 100% sure that thats exactly not the problem.

 

[PaulyD]

Was on phone so couldn't check screenie probably.

Looking at it now would have to agree with you Aod!

 

[Cob]

There was a setting on the P35 DS3P that inadvertably disabled one core on some BIOS's. It might have been the hyperthreading option, or the virtualization/Vanderpool option. Probably the former.

 

[Happy]

Not sure if this is on XP, but worth checking. Start>Run>Msconfig>Boot/Advanced Options> and make sure the 'number of processors' tick box is deselected.