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ha, believe me, you aren't even in the same league as the people i find annoying xD
i wonder if vista boot pro or something similar would list the options currently used at startup. its possible windows is still setting it to 1 core at startup.
You've already been in the BIOS so this probably isnt it but some BOISes allow you to select to run only one CPU (regardless of the number installed) for extreme compatibility purposes... Sort of like how some HDs allow you to jumper them for 1 gig regardless of their actual size so they can still be used with DOS...
I'm really starting to worry now, this PC Cost £550 and I've had it for two months and broke it already. It's my own fault really... not everything on the internet is always right so i shouldn't have followed it. Perhaps if it is not too much trouble sombody could try and help me via remote assistance is possible?
- Michael
It's fixed!
I tried system restore to as far back it could let me go and now it works.
And yeah i did that Dwarf ^^.
Thank you all for your help and suggestions. +rep
Just to follow up, i realised there is another way to correct this problem.
since the device manager was displaying the correct amount of cores, it was simply that the system environment had set itself to only see 1 core, you can change the NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS system environment variable in Advanced System Settings to correct this.