Question Windows 7 Ultimate does not recognise all the cores of my i7-3770S ?

[arajigar]

Windows 7 Ultimate does not show them in HWMonitor, and CPU-Z seems to not work either (can't see cores and all that stuff, but probably I'm dumb and cannot understand the data. In the BIOS all seems right, btw.

Oh. And dont point me to the msconfig fix because it sc***ed the system (BSOD with BAD SYSTEM CONFIG, and blah, blah, blah). In fact, I'm reinstalling Windows 7 right now. Is there any non-harmful and sensible fix out there?.

Thanks in anticipation😊

 

[arajigar]

Never turn the system ON without a known good full system backup.
I don't.

Amen

 

[boju]

Yeah as pointed out earlier, Windows often sets the amount of cores in msconfig by itself when swapping to a higher core or different processor. This would have been the setting to check to avoid reinstalling Windows, unselecting number of processors check box followed by a restart.