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HELP! q6600 only showing 2 cores?

what would be the easiest way to backup my c: drive? I have the room on another disk so thats not a problem
 
I just created a folder named backup lee on my d: drive then copyied the contents into it. bout 60gb , gonna take about an hour it says, Oh thats gone down a bit now.
 
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Hi guys, have reinstalled windows and all 4 cores are now showing up:).
Guess reinstalling is the answer to everything basically. I will get my desktop sorted and get some overclocking in:D


Cheers Again:)
 
WAIT!!! Don't reinstall just yet!

I had this problem too, just 2 weeks ago. For some unknown reason, Vista (mine is 64 bit) did not pick up the newly installed Q6600 and still thought I had an E6400 in place. Funny, that XP picked up the change just fine on my testing rig (I boot to another hard drive with XP loaded for testing).

What I did was went into Device Manager and uninstalled each instance under the processor tab and restarted after each core had been uninstalled. At the next startup, it recognised the CPU change. Was really weird.

Something for Microsoft to fix. Don't go resintalling just yet. Persevere and keep plugging away - I may well have experienced more luck than judgement but I got there in the end. Might be worth doing a DMI clear on top of the CMOS clear. I would take out the battery for a couple of hours to completely reset the BIOS and see if there is an option to clear the DMI pool (and/or ESCD).

/NINJA EDIT - I was too late :(.
 
Leebone said:
Hi guys, have reinstalled windows and all 4 cores are now showing up:).
Guess reinstalling is the answer to everything basically. I will get my desktop sorted and get some overclocking in:D


Cheers Again:)
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Could you update my trust mate if you are happy with it :):)
 
smids said:
WAIT!!! Don't reinstall just yet!

I had this problem too, just 2 weeks ago. For some unknown reason, Vista (mine is 64 bit) did not pick up the newly installed Q6600 and still thought I had an E6400 in place. Funny, that XP picked up the change just fine on my testing rig (I boot to another hard drive with XP loaded for testing).

What I did was went into Device Manager and uninstalled each instance under the processor tab and restarted after each core had been uninstalled. At the next startup, it recognised the CPU change. Was really weird.

Something for Microsoft to fix. Don't go resintalling just yet. Persevere and keep plugging away - I may well have experienced more luck than judgement but I got there in the end. Might be worth doing a DMI clear on top of the CMOS clear. I would take out the battery for a couple of hours to completely reset the BIOS and see if there is an option to clear the DMI pool (and/or ESCD).

/NINJA EDIT - I was too late :(.
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Pretty gutted about that actually. nevermind... nice fresh install
 
yea unisntalling the old device and then re-scanning will generally make it pick up the new cpu/other hardware. Its because it still works with the old driver/identification etc so windows doesn't view it as having any issue.

If only we had been able to let you know sooner :(
 
Not yet mate, just updating windows at the moment but my highest idle temp was 28c on one core. Thats at 1.20v but at stock speed so looking good. Gonna gets some load temps at 3.5 maybe 3.6 inabit;)
 
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