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CorryBasler · 10-13-08

Hey OCN,

I just got my new Q6600, EVGA 750i FTW, and 4GB of OCZ 1066Mhz RAM! I was glad to see my Q6600 i got in a new retail box for newegg.com was infact a GO and its got a VID of 1.275 so its a great OC'er! I set the FSB to 1600 right from the start and i have got no BSOD's since! But i soon found out that it is only using 1 of the 4 cores! Its reading 4 cores in the POST message but when i get to XP or Vista i only have 1 Core and 1 thread! Anyone know how to enable my Quad core? BTW all 4 cores are enabled in the BIOS!

EDIT: I fixed this after 3 CPU Reseats, 6 Windows Installs, and 1 BIOS Flash! After the 6th Reinstall it finnaly worked!

aleiro · 10-13-08

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Originally Posted by CorryBasler

Hey OCN,

I just got my new Q6600, EVGA 750i FTW, and 4GB of OCZ 1066Mhz RAM! I was glad to see my Q6600 i got in a new retail box for newegg.com was infact a GO and its got a VID of 1.275 so its a great OC'er! I set the FSB to 1600 right from the start and i have got no BSOD's since! But i soon found out that it is only using 1 of the 4 cores! Its reading 4 cores in the POST message but when i get to XP or Vista i only have 1 Core and 1 thread! Anyone know how to enable my Quad core? BTW all 4 cores are enabled in the BIOS!

did you reinstall windows? If so then go to device manager and uninstall your processor and reboot, it should find and install it

oh and drop it down to 3.0ghz there is no way it will run if you havent set the voltage in the bios and tested it

CorryBasler · 10-13-08

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Originally Posted by aleiro

did you reinstall windows? If so then go to device manager and uninstall your processor and reboot, it should find and install it

oh and drop it down to 3.0ghz there is no way it will run if you havent set the voltage in the bios and tested it

i left the voltge on auto and it set it to 1.4v when i OC'ed it to 3.6Ghz, Also ive done 4 reinstalles and still no go! Also ive tryed it from stock speeds to 4GHz (Which it boots into windows and i can use it with no BSOD)!

whe3ls · 10-13-08

you have have to enable them in the bios

reezin14 · 10-13-08

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Originally Posted by whe3ls

you have have to enable them in the bios

Seconded.

Ducky · 10-13-08

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Originally Posted by whe3ls

you have have to enable them in the bios

Lol, might not be a bad idea to tell him how

whe3ls · 10-13-08

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Originally Posted by Ducky

Lol, might not be a bad idea to tell him how

ya its in the manual

CorryBasler · 10-13-08

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Originally Posted by whe3ls

you have have to enable them in the bios

the problem is they all say Enabled next to them! So is they another setting i need to enable? I reset the CMOS, loaded the Fail-Safe Settings, and even tryed loading he Optized Settings but none of those helped this problem!

Mikecdm · 10-13-08

something similar happened to me when I had an E6600, only 1 of the cores was enabled. I think that it was a result of blindly overclocking without any real testing. I just punched in 400x9 and typed in some random number for vcore. It was no where near stable and only one core showed to be running. When I raised the vcore, both cores showed to be operating.

CorryBasler · 10-13-08

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Originally Posted by Mikecdm

something similar happened to me when I had an E6600, only 1 of the cores was enabled. I think that it was a result of blindly overclocking without any real testing. I just punched in 400x9 and typed in some random number for vcore. It was no where near stable and only one core showed to be running. When I raised the vcore, both cores showed to be operating.

Well i can see how that would work but, It does this at the stock voltage and stock speeds, even after a CMOS Reset it does this even though all four cores are enabed!

EDIT: Also in CPU-z it only shows some of the Info! It does not show the FSB speed!

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