Hello everybody

I have an AMD X2 6000, but I'm not seeing two graphs in the cpu usage TAB. I started to notice a big drop off in performance and I knew it couldn't be viruses, because I know my pc is CLEAN. Could a core have died or gone bad somehow? I have Windows XP Pro and 3 gigs of ram on a Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H mobo. I just don't know what the problem is. I'm really starting to miss the blazing performance. Please help me. Thanks for your help.

Do you have the task manager set to "one graph for all cpus" instead of "one graph per cpu"?

You can find that option under computer history.Yes, it is set at one graph per cpu. My performance is suffering big time and it seems like i'm running on 1 processor. Also, I went under boot.ini to see if i Could boot up with 2 cores, and it shows only 1. What can the problem be?Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager...
How is it SHOWING up there ? ?Yes, it shows it as an ACPI multi processor PC. I also checked for processor updates and there are none.NVM, I SOLVED the problem !!!!!! I just needed to set the boot.ini to default. Thank you all for trying to help.Then there's nothing to lose sleep over.
If it is running slower than usual do all your normal housekeeping: disk cleanup; defrag; all MALWARE scans etc.
Check the free space on your drive and double check device manager for any yellow !!'s.
Let us know...The speed is back, it's blazing fast. I haven't had any viruses or spyware for over 2 years, since I first installed Kaspersky antivirus, so I knew malware wasn't the problem.Quote from: retinchet on November 20, 2008, 07:27:42 PM

I went under boot.ini to see if i Could boot up with 2 cores, and it shows only 1. What can the problem be?