IModIntel

Hi everyone, my mom's boyfriend had an old computer as follows:

-AMD athlon socketA 1900+
-ASUS A7V266-E motherboard
-ATI All-In-Wonder 8500DV
-512mb DDR-266 Kingston

And recently, his motherboard fried the CPU for no apparent reason, taking the motherboard at the same time. so what he was this:

Get combo motherboard: ASrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 ---> http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.as...al-SATA2&s=775

AND

Intel Core 2 Duo E4600+

he was able to use the rest of his old components to make it all work.

I installed the CPU and mobo with no issues, booted up fine.

However, when I go in the Window Task Manager to see the CPU utilization, only one core shows up. Same thing for the latest Everest.

At first I though it might be a good thing to update the BIOS. Worked, but futile.. Still only one core reckognized. However system is extremely stable.

I might want to add that while I changed the components, I did not reinstall Windows.

Thanks for the help.

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PS. : I just noticed that the E4600 is not is the Asrock CPU support list for that mobo. Think this could be the problem?

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Vi3trice

Ahem...

Probably. Why didn't you check the compatibility list for that board before buying it?

Unixlord

Interesting situation there. One would think that an incompatible cpu wouldn't even boot. You could always try reinstalling windows or popping in a live Linux distro to pull some info.

Welcome to ngohq Vi3trice.

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IModIntel

Whats even more strange is the fact that (even if the CPU is not in the support list) the CPU is fully reckognized as a E4600 in the bios and in the windows system panel

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IModIntel

Hi everyone.

I was searching the net for a solution and on some site I think i might have found one.

The Windows installed on the computer came UNCHANGED from a single-core machine.

This were the steps to take described by the site:

1. In Run menu, go msconfig (know that)
2.go in boot.ini
3.advanced options
4. but option /NUMPROC to 2.

I will bring some feedback when I go back.

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Unixlord

Well it would be helpful if you posted a cpuz screenshot. Here is one of my E4500 to compare. Not quite the same thing but similar enough. In case you're wondering Gigabyte P31-DS3L and crap instead of ram.

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IModIntel

Reinstalled Windows and now problem is fixed. Performance is also much better. I really don't know wy Asrock didn't put the C2D E4600 in their list , because its fully detected by Windows and the BIOS and is extremely stable.

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SpectatorX

Asrock mobos are at all really strange, way how do they work, how do they look and other things.

Default settings in this mobos are often wrong 'cos at many of them u can't normally run os installed on sata hdd. I saw few asrock's mobos with this problem. Bios is the worriest thing in asrock's mobos, it is their weak point.

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Mjoelnir

totally normal, when you upgrade your mobo and cpu from single to double without reinstalling windows, that windows only recognizes one core

as you found out its possible to get two core recognized without reinstalling but you lose a bit of power

asrock is a bit strange with their cpu lists.. but normally every cpu up to q6x run on the 4coredual

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