Hi,
The short story is that I need to know if there is anyway to turn off one core in a dual core processor.
The longer story is that a while ago I decided to upgrade my amd processor from a single core 3500 to a dual core 3800. It worked fine but I eventualy realised that my motherboard didn't support dual core processors and It was only using one core. However seeing as it was still faster then my single core I decided to leave it in and deal with it later (as and when funds permited a more extensive upgrade).
Now recently my PC was having some issues, probably caused by a virus so I sent it off to a PC shop to get fixed. It came back seemingly working fine but it crashed far more reguarly. Eventualy I traced It down and I think the problem is the PC shop somehow managed to enable both cores, so whenever a process is pased from one core to another, such as opening up a different program when one is already running, my computer crashes and restarts.
As a tempory fix I have just turned off the second processor from working with various programs by setting the affinity in task manager which has made things fairly stable for the moment, but I would like to know if there is a more permenant fix I have had a brief look in the bios but there doesn't seem to be anything there (and I'm also not entirely sure what to look for)
I would call up the shop and ask what they did but as sod's law would have it they are closed for the next few days and I need to have my PC working sooner rather then later.
Any help would be very much appreciated
thanks


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otherwise you could try reinstalling drivers in windows.
