OMG, Where are my Cores?????????

[Borealis7]

OMG Koala pr0n!

 

[tweakboy]

This was a funny and scary story. I think if it happened to any of us we wouldn't be laughing,

As for your COCD. computer obsessive compulsive disorder.

Hang in there we all have it in some way or another.

 

[tweakboy]

LOL ,,, yes this sounds like a tb thread. hehe

 

[Virgorising]

What a crazy question.....

Sigh. ANOTHER unhappy human moved blindly to leak toxins and impugn....as opposed to getting to the bottom of his own and divesting himself of those.

You can fix this, and you deserve to.

Within a healthy lifeforce being who can celebrate not knowing and ASK, there are no crazy questions nor any stupid ones. False pride is no pride.

 

[Maximilian]

OMG. I just ran CPUZ.....and two of my cores are gone!!!!

I have your cores... they're safe... for now, give me a 512GB SSD and a GTX Titan or you will never see them again! :twisted:

 

[Virgorising]

OMG Koala pr0n!

Cept nothing booytcall related going on there. They are cuddling, not even TWERKING.()

 

[Virgorising]

I have your cores... they're safe... for now, give me a 512GB SSD and a GTX Titan or you will never see them again! :twisted:

Now THIS......is cuter than my Koalas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:wub::biggrin: YOU...have a delicious, happiness-speaking twinkle in your eye, and they....don't.

I will totally go along. But first, I need to see FURTHER PROOF OF CORES.:sneaky:
And, if you take my cores across state lines.....the FEDS WILL GET YOU!!!!

 

[aigomorla]

reseat the cpu...

u may have a bad pin.. or a lose pin... or possibly the board could be bad too.

Go into bios and see if 4 cores is being detected inside bios.

If u do see 4 cores is in bios, then its windows itself not detecting the extra 2 cores.

 

[Puppies04]

OP do not use registry cleaners, they cause way more problems than they solve.

At a push only use a registry cleaner if you have a specific issue you think running one might solve.

Sources: My family and friends who screw their PCs up with registry cleaners then call me up moaning about how the "helpful" program broke something.

 

[Virgorising]

reseat the cpu...

u may have a bad pin.. or a lose pin... or possibly the board could be bad too.

Go into bios and see if 4 cores is being detected inside bios.

If u do see 4 cores is in bios, then its windows itself not detecting the extra 2 cores.

If you read the thread, you will see the issue was resolved. And easily, with info from a kind and savvy human. Trying to kill a mosquito with a Gatling gun....is, without exception, not a good strategy.

Making a sound differential diagnosis leading to a proper fix.....is always the way to go.

But I appreciate your having been moved to try to help.

 

[crashtech]

It would be enlightening to know what triggers this particular difficulty. I've gone up and down in the number of CPU cores many times on a single Windows 7 installation, and it has always (so far) properly autodetected them.

 

[Virgorising]

OP do not use registry cleaners, they cause way more problems than they solve.

At a push only use a registry cleaner if you have a specific issue you think running one might solve.

Sources: My family and friends who screw their PCs up with registry cleaners then call me up moaning about how the "helpful" program broke something.

I have read and heard this forever. So I get it has some veracity. But truth is, I never messed up using my reg cleaners (well not so far).....and I also defrag the registry when needed.

I only messed up bigtime once: when, way back, I was on reckless autopilot deleting dupe files. I started hillighting a dozen at a time with alacrity and no discernment....and ended up killing vital dll files...and so, the whole installation NOT my proudest moment for sure. Mea maxima culpa.

But it was an uber learning experience.

 

[Virgorising]

It would be enlightening to know what triggers this particular difficulty. I've gone up and down in the number of CPU cores many times on a single Windows 7 installation, and it has always (so far) properly autodetected them.

Precisely my unarticulated thoughts!!!!!

Am pretty sure, in my no sleep, work and then spend double digit hours to get this new setup finished and over....I did something unwittingly. I am positive it was not some spontaneous event.

Edit: hold on....it's coming back....what, in my days long sleepless mania I now recall having done at some point: at some point, I think I told the system to use FOUR CORES....with the ignorant premise, "four should be plenty, who needs more to boot?"

You live, you DO....you learn. Anyone who does not mess up,occasionally, i,s however metaphorically, hiding in the fetal position in the corner. (Including the late Steve Jobs, who messed up and never hid in ANY CORNER.)

But the MAIN take away for me, one which thrills and humbles me, is, were I not a member of this site, I would have been miserable and stressed, possibly for days and days....until someone kind and savvy somewhere, shared the solution.

 

[Virgorising]

Sorry, in a hurry and I double posted/

 

[Alan G]

OP do not use registry cleaners, they cause way more problems than they solve.

At a push only use a registry cleaner if you have a specific issue you think running one might solve.

Sources: My family and friends who screw their PCs up with registry cleaners then call me up moaning about how the "helpful" program broke something.

LOL, I think this happened to my wife's workstation the other day. I ran CCleaner on it the day before and the next day it showed the Black Screen at startup so I suspect that something got screwed up in the registry, maybe a critical file got deleted or altered. I wasn't about to spend all day trouble shooting it so I just did a fresh Win7 & MSFT Office install (all the data was on a HDD and unaffected). It's the last time I run that sucker (even though it has good reviews).

 

[Virgorising]

LOL, I think this happened to my wife's workstation the other day. I ran CCleaner on it the day before and the next day it showed the Black Screen at startup so I suspect that something got screwed up in the registry, maybe a critical file got deleted or altered. I wasn't about to spend all day trouble shooting it so I just did a fresh Win7 & MSFT Office install (all the data was on a HDD and unaffected). It's the last time I run that sucker (even though it has good reviews).

Alan (Just got some fab work done so I can post).....it is hard for me to believe that the hugely conservative and well written, build after build CCleaner (I once sent the guy money when he had only a free version), could have been the culprit there.

And, better I do not share just how many reg cleaners I use!:sneaky: And all, afford the option to backup the registry for restoring should that be necessary.

But once in a while U gotta go in an change or delete keys manually.

One reason I pay for the pro Revo Uninstaller, is....U use it to uninstall a given thing, and then you do deep scan and get rid of all its reg entries!

 

[SPBHM]

LOL, I think this happened to my wife's workstation the other day. I ran CCleaner on it the day before and the next day it showed the Black Screen at startup so I suspect that something got screwed up in the registry, maybe a critical file got deleted or altered. I wasn't about to spend all day trouble shooting it so I just did a fresh Win7 & MSFT Office install (all the data was on a HDD and unaffected). It's the last time I run that sucker (even though it has good reviews).

I've been using CCleaner for many years, with multiple PCs and it never caused any problem, also Windows creates restore points regularly, so I could probably use that, like I did when the official tool from AMD for removing drivers caused my OS not to work anymore.

 

[Virgorising]

I've been using CCleaner for many years, with multiple PCs and it never caused any problem, also Windows creates restore points regularly, so I could probably use that, like I did when the official tool from AMD for removing drivers caused my OS not to work anymore.

I relate. But I almost always keep system restore turned off. Not that I would recommend it.

Shame on AMD. But, bet Intel isn't perfect either.

 

[crashtech]

The best way to keep your registry from getting borked is not to install a bunch of weird/free software. In the end it's usually better to nuke and pave than to mess with excessive registry editing or automated "cleaning." My last work machine lived for five years on one XP install, never once "cleaned" the registry. It was still fine when migrated to Win7 this year.

 

[Virgorising]

The best way to keep your registry from getting borked is not to install a bunch of weird/free software. In the end it's usually better to nuke and pave than to mess with excessive registry editing or automated "cleaning." My last work machine lived for five years on one XP install, never once "cleaned" the registry. It was still fine when migrated to Win7 this year.

I hear you. I do. But my addiction is not like Ms. Lohan's. I confess, I bought into the need for a clean and defragged registry long ago. And, unlike my once manic, wanton dup file cleaning (never once did that again!), so far, this has not gotten me into trouble.

But I HEAR YOU, already respect you, and so just made a New Folder with THIS and corroborating posts in it.....and uploaded it to my brain.

If you think my little reg cleaning addiction is upsetting, you should see the pics of when I did surgery on an Antec PSU upgrade! In the desktop I just moved up from. It was VERY fun, the right thing to do, DESPITE HOW UNCONVENTIONAL TO SOME.... and I never regretted it once.

Since those pics are now in this system....I think maybe I will make a new thread and put them up! :sneaky:

I guess I would have to choose the PSU forum. I am going to do this! Responses will be litmus tests.()
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Edit: I just did what I said I would, above. It is all in the PSU forum.

 

[sniffin]

You are adorable OP

 

[Virgorising]

You are adorable OP

MORE NOW....after seeing your post.:wub:

 

[tweakboy]

Thanks guys for the support.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

I love this thread. XD Partly because it's good to still see someone with an older 870 like that. I have one too, and while it's fast, it's not properly optimized for in a lot of things.

 

[ninaholic37]

I just logged on to vote this thread Terrible. :thumbsup: