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July 10, 2009 at 08:20 PM
j-mccurdy

Q9550 shows two cores

by j-mccurdy . Updated 16 years, 12 months ago

I have an EVGA 780i ftw motherboard a Q9550 quad core processor. four gigs of ocz memory[2 sticks] gtx275 video card. And windows 7 rc operating system. My operating system is only showing and using two cores instead of four. I also checked everest ultimate edition and it only detects two cores as well. I just payed a lot of money upgrading from a E8400 core2 duo. And I would like to get everything working. I don’t know if it was working before But I think it was because my experience index has dropped a point on the processor part. I set my bios for optimized defaults. And then enabled raid 0, which I have always had. I’m at my wits end here,I was up all night working on this. I tried doing msconfig and clicking boot then advanced options it doesn’t have the thing that says HAL. The number of processors option has only a choice of one or two processors. Please Help!!!!!!

I have automatic updates turned on. I have the newest bios.

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