Just built a system using a Q6600 chip on an MSI P35 neo2-fr mother board with 4 gigs of ram and a 4850 ati graphics card. I am currently using 2 brand new 500 gig drives set up to duel boot into XP Pro, or Vista Ultima. That being said, I was under the impression that the system would utilize, or at least show 4 cores in task manager, or at least in the bios. Seems that no matter what OS I boot into, only 2 cores are ever shown. I have done a clean install as this is a new system, and have updated the bios. Any thoughts on how to make this machine work properly? Also, has anyone else run into this problem using this mother board.
You may need to update your bios http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=bios&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1261 Seems like a quality board. I like Msi.
Checked bios version and it reverted back to the origional. Tried to update again and got a check sum error. Version continuiously reverts back to origional. I believe this MB may be defective as it will not hold an update when initalized. Will have to return and try another.
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