CPU problem? Help? :(

[andy3457]

Ok, I'll get straight to it the problem...
I'm no computer wiz and yesterday I turned my pc on as usual to play some BF3 ...But when my computer starts up I get this ASUS screen and it tells me like "**** 4 cores activated ****" or something and a little picture with like a processor and a up arrow and a 4...But this time I loaded up my pc with no changes and all of a sudden it says "**** 3 cores activated ****" So now...I'm just confused...I can't make any sense of it, I looked in the BIOS to see if I could see anything for general Auto tuning or whatever and I found like OC auto tuner or something so I ran that, It saved rebooted my pc but still only says "3 cores activated"...?

Is this a problem or is there an easy way to fix it? Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance.

Andy.

 

[andy3457]

- Power Supply: OCZ ZS 650w PSU
- CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 640 3.00Ghz overclocked to 3.60Ghz
- Motherboard: AMD 990FX DDR3 Motherboard
- Cooler: OcUK H2 Flo Cooler
- RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
- Hard Drive 1: 500GB HDD
- Hard Drive 2: 1TB HDD
- Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5
- Sound: 7.1 Channel Sound (On-Board)
- Optical Drive: LG DVD+/-RW SATA Drive
- Operating system: Windows Ultimate 64-bit
- All Drivers installed and up to date...


Hopefully this will help? :S

 

[andy3457]

Right, Just sorted it thanks.

Solution -Went into the BIOS then found something in a tab to do with the CPU and for some reason the "4th core" was saying "[OFF]" so just switched that to "[ON]" and now it's all fine Thanks a lot guys..

Andy.

 

[andy3457]

I wonder how a single core got turned off in the first place? Hopefully it's not a sign of bad things to come

Yeah I have no clue, I don't mess with anything in the BIOS...:S
And don't say that, The last thing I want is bad things happening lol

Thanks again,

Andy.