i5 6600k Only showing 2 cores? help

[Luna Legend]

Hello Community,
In the WIndows 10 task manager, its showing my cores as 2 when its said to be 4, any suggestions on how to fix this would be helpful

thank you


http://i.imgur.com/x0zrOCx.png

 

[jbseven]

It might be disabling cores due to low cpu usage. Try running prime95 and check number of cores.

 

[geofelt]

Strange.
Possibly with windows 10 and the 6600k being new, it is simply a reporting error.
Run cpu-Z which should tell you have 4 cores.

If that shows two, go into msconfig and make certain that the number of start up cores is 4.

Another possibility is that the motherboard bios has a problem and is defaulting to 2 cores.
Possibly there is a motherboard bios update.

I suppose it is possible that you have a defective cpu, a call to intel support might help.

 

[R4lNM4N]

Possible solutions here...
http://superuser.com/questions/839391/task-manager-shows-one-processor-and-not-multiple-cores

I notice you're using a latest generation processor. I assuming this is a fairly new build...pay close attention to the solution about chipset drivers. Go to your motherboard manufacturers website and download/install the latest drivers for your board. Also PUSH windows updates by forcing Windows to check for the latest updates - even though it already says it's up to date...click "check for updates" anyway and force it to further update

 

[johnnyb105]

You can also go into the device manager and remove all cpus there and reboot it should now say 4 cpu cores but if it already shows 4 then I would look further. Ran into that issue some time ago upgrading a clients old e 8400 to a q 9300 quad in the device manager it show 2 cores e 8400 and 2 cores q 9300 quad I removed all those and rebooted and it showed 4 also in msconfig go to advance tab uncheck number of cores as well before reboot.... Hope this helps/

 

[Luna Legend]

Well I fixed it by reinstalling windows, I know it's long but I had all important data, like GTA 5 (60GB) on a hhd , now it works fine, I think it may have been a virus as my ram was also been taken from a unknown sources, 2GB of Ram just wasn't being shown.

 

[Luna Legend]

Thank you all who helped much appreciated