Quad still showing as dual core

something daft already!! · 4 Feb 2009 at 14:49

Hi,

I just upgraded my dual core to a quad core. Had to uninstall drivers of old e6750, twice and the quad core is seen as four processors in device manager.

Trouble is, I dont think Vista x64 is seeing all the cores. In task manager and in my gagdet it only shows two cores, not four. Any ideas what I may have to uninstall or change in the registry to tell it I do have four corse now?

Cheers
H

Kennysevenfold · 4 Feb 2009 at 14:55

Tried a CMOS reset mate.?

reflux · 4 Feb 2009 at 14:59

You had a tinker with the msconfig processor allocations? Could be set to two.

bledd · 4 Feb 2009 at 15:04

reflux said:
You had a tinker with the msconfig processor allocations? Could be set to two.

this is worth a try..

msconfig
Boot
Advanced Options..

Number of Procsessors, set to 4.

What board & bios are you running?

something daft already!! · 4 Feb 2009 at 15:05

Only has the option for two processors in the boot menu. Stumped tbh. Asus P5N-E SLI. The processor is seen as four in device manager and correctly identified in BIOS.

bledd · 4 Feb 2009 at 15:08

in that same screen as above, try ticking the 'detect HAL'

something daft already!! · 4 Feb 2009 at 15:12

cool, will give it a try.

something daft already!! · 4 Feb 2009 at 15:21

That's done it! Thanks bledd, you're a star!

bledd · 4 Feb 2009 at 15:23

add info to sticky someone

something daft already!! · 4 Feb 2009 at 15:55

TBH I thought you would come up with the answer!

bledd · 4 Feb 2009 at 16:00

Spie has started giving me 10% off vouchers for each problem I resolve on here, so I try my best. It's well worth the effort now!