help unlocking in bios

[Draufganger]

I have an old Phenom II 550 BE dual core, that i've just recently started to tweak since the warranty is almost out so I thought it's now or never. For those who know, it has 2 extra cores that are considered bad and are deactivate, but sometimes one or two of them are in fact working and you can unlock them. I've manage to unlock the extra 2 cores, posted well in bios but never manage to go beyond the Windows logo. But I know you can try to make it a tri-core, but I to dissable each core to figure out if any of the "deffective" ones actually works and the only problem in this is that I haven't figured out how to do this. I have an Asus motherboard with an nVidia chipset , more exactly the M4N72-E.

If anyone knows the inner working of it's bios, please do help.

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[douglasb]

Looks like you have it set almost correctly to me. What you want to do is figure out which core is the defective one, and disable that core (and enable all the others) through the BIOS.

 

[Draufganger]

yes, but how do I do that? NVCC goes between -12% to 12 % there is no deactivate function that I can see.