I upgraded my CPU from an Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 to Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550s. After booting up the system it was still showing the old CPU. From Intel I added a tool so windows would recognize the new CPU, which partially worked. It got regcognized but only two cores were showing/used..
I read somewhere to uncheck the "use cores at startup" in msconfig and a blue screen showed up after booting. I tried to reset windows 10 to factory settings, which failed and am now running system recovery which is running already some time now and feel is going to fail as well..
Luckily I have a back-up of my system, so as a last resort I could swap the CPU's again, since the core speeds of the E7500 are a bit higher. But I would like to use the quad core of course.. I was thinking to use the back-up and immediately reinstall windows 10. Would that work or does somebody have some other advice? According to the manufactorer the CPU should be supported, but I doubt their expertise a bit, since they also said there isn't a BIOS update while there are newer versions.
I read somewhere to uncheck the "use cores at startup" in msconfig and a blue screen showed up after booting. I tried to reset windows 10 to factory settings, which failed and am now running system recovery which is running already some time now and feel is going to fail as well..
Luckily I have a back-up of my system, so as a last resort I could swap the CPU's again, since the core speeds of the E7500 are a bit higher. But I would like to use the quad core of course.. I was thinking to use the back-up and immediately reinstall windows 10. Would that work or does somebody have some other advice? According to the manufactorer the CPU should be supported, but I doubt their expertise a bit, since they also said there isn't a BIOS update while there are newer versions.