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I just find it hard to believe that it can be the BIOS especially since for example Windows Task Manager is showing everything CPU-Z isn't showing currently, L1 to L3 cache, Socket, Cores, Threads and Virtualization and MSI Afterburner is getting the temp quite fine even now. Forgive my ignorance but I thought only reflashes during power loss is the only way to corrupt a BIOS. I can do the reflash and hope for now power loss but I'm very hesitant.

But if I reflash the BIOS and that doesn't help, what would be the next move you would suggest?

CPU-Z did have a problem reading cpu info at one point, are you using the latest cpu-z software? If Windows task manager reads fine, the problem is related to cpu-z.

 

Could be a corrupted file in registry. Probably a fresh install of Windows would fix it. You can freshinstall when windows 10 is released, I think the will offer cheap licenses in the beginning.

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Everything use to be okay and fine but then I noticed it first couple of months ago HWInfo started reporting a frozen temperature on the second core of my i3 3240. I thought it was the program but then I went into CPU-Z and saw it suddenly can't detect the core either and the L1 and L3 cache data is suddenly gone.
 
Not only does CPU-Z can't properly identify my CPU but Prime95 as well. It picks up that it's an Intel i3/i5/i7 but for the working threads it reports 16 available rather than 4. L1 and L3 cache results are also missing. BIOS, Task Manager and MSI Afterburner all work fine and recognize the CPU completely. MSI Afterburner is also the only application that can detect the temperature of the 2nd core properly.

 

I've already uninstalled & reinstalled the CPU drivers & the programs affected, went into msconfig and change around the core count from the default setting, disabled a core and hyperthreading in BIOS, nothing helps yet. The only thing that did happen was that Prime95 recognized when I set the CPU to be a single core with no HT on and so produced 1 worker rather than 16. Anyone knows how to deal with this?

I'm on Windows 8.1 64 bit

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System: Intel Core i3 3240 @ 3.4GHz, EVGA GTX 960 SSC 2GB ACX 2.0, 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 Kingston HyperX RAM, ASRock B75M-DGS R2.0 Motherboard, Corsair CX430 W Power Supply

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Cinabench it, and compare to a new one. If your performance is much worse. Probably the motherboard is defect, maybe the CPU if you have been running hot with stock cooler.

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Maybe try resetting or re-flashing the BIOS?

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Cinabench it, and compare to a new one. If your performance is much worse. Probably the motherboard is defect, maybe the CPU if you have been running hot with stock cooler.

 

The typical Cinebench I see for it is around 3.3 to 3.5 points in R11.5, I get 3.36. Temperatures are always cool, it has never gotten higher than the 60 - 65 C range but that's with a custom fan curve, if I let the system handle it by the motherboard's standards, it will never get above 55 C.

 

Maybe try resetting or re-flashing the BIOS?

 

No I haven't and I don't think I should go that route. Ever since the system was built, the motherboard has been on the latest BIOS available so I didn't have to touch it at all and things were fine then so I don't see why I should touch it now especially if the BIOS is recognizing everything perfectly. I'm thinking this is something Windows based because as stated everything use to be fine, HWInfo, CPU-Z, Prime95 everything.

System: Intel Core i3 3240 @ 3.4GHz, EVGA GTX 960 SSC 2GB ACX 2.0, 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 Kingston HyperX RAM, ASRock B75M-DGS R2.0 Motherboard, Corsair CX430 W Power Supply

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The typical Cinebench I see for it is around 3.3 to 3.5 points in R11.5, I get 3.36. Temperatures are always cool, it has never gotten higher than the 60 - 65 C range but that's with a custom fan curve, if I let the system handle it by the motherboard's standards, it will never get above 55 C.

 

 

No I haven't and I don't think I should go that route. Ever since the system was built, the motherboard has been on the latest BIOS available so I didn't have to touch it at all and things were fine then so I don't see why I should touch it now especially if the BIOS is recognizing everything perfectly. I'm thinking this is something Windows based because as stated everything use to be fine, HWInfo, CPU-Z, Prime95 everything.

Does the BIOS recognize the CPU?

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Does the BIOS recognize the CPU?

Yes, perfectly no problems

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Yes, perfectly no problems

If you go into Device Manager, what do you see in regards to your CPU?

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If you go into Device Manager, what do you see in regards to your CPU?

All 4 CPU threads under the Processors

System: Intel Core i3 3240 @ 3.4GHz, EVGA GTX 960 SSC 2GB ACX 2.0, 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 Kingston HyperX RAM, ASRock B75M-DGS R2.0 Motherboard, Corsair CX430 W Power Supply

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All 4 CPU threads under the Processors

Seems like a bios related issue with how the bios and windows layer communicate. What to blame, the bios.

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Seems like a bios related issue with how the bios and windows layer communicate. What to blame, the bios.

I just find it hard to believe that it can be the BIOS especially since for example Windows Task Manager is showing everything CPU-Z isn't showing currently, L1 to L3 cache, Socket, Cores, Threads and Virtualization and MSI Afterburner is getting the temp quite fine even now. Forgive my ignorance but I thought only reflashes during power loss is the only way to corrupt a BIOS. I can do the reflash and hope for now power loss but I'm very hesitant.

But if I reflash the BIOS and that doesn't help, what would be the next move you would suggest?

System: Intel Core i3 3240 @ 3.4GHz, EVGA GTX 960 SSC 2GB ACX 2.0, 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 Kingston HyperX RAM, ASRock B75M-DGS R2.0 Motherboard, Corsair CX430 W Power Supply

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I just find it hard to believe that it can be the BIOS especially since for example Windows Task Manager is showing everything CPU-Z isn't showing currently, L1 to L3 cache, Socket, Cores, Threads and Virtualization and MSI Afterburner is getting the temp quite fine even now. Forgive my ignorance but I thought only reflashes during power loss is the only way to corrupt a BIOS. I can do the reflash and hope for now power loss but I'm very hesitant.

But if I reflash the BIOS and that doesn't help, what would be the next move you would suggest?

Anything holding information can become corrupted.

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"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

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I just find it hard to believe that it can be the BIOS especially since for example Windows Task Manager is showing everything CPU-Z isn't showing currently, L1 to L3 cache, Socket, Cores, Threads and Virtualization and MSI Afterburner is getting the temp quite fine even now. Forgive my ignorance but I thought only reflashes during power loss is the only way to corrupt a BIOS. I can do the reflash and hope for now power loss but I'm very hesitant.

But if I reflash the BIOS and that doesn't help, what would be the next move you would suggest?

CPU-Z did have a problem reading cpu info at one point, are you using the latest cpu-z software? If Windows task manager reads fine, the problem is related to cpu-z.

 

Could be a corrupted file in registry. Probably a fresh install of Windows would fix it. You can freshinstall when windows 10 is released, I think the will offer cheap licenses in the beginning.

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CPU-Z did have a problem reading cpu info at one point, are you using the latest cpu-z software? If Windows task manager reads fine, the problem is related to cpu-z.

 

Could be a corrupted file in registry. Probably a fresh install of Windows would fix it. You can freshinstall when windows 10 is released, I think the will offer cheap licenses in the beginning.

I'll be trying the reflashing of the BIOS to kill all suspicions there but yeah this is more what I think is wrong something registry based. If I only knew on the technical level where CPU-Z is pulling the data from, this would probably be an easier fix. But remember its not just CPU-Z gone bad; its HWInfo, I didn't mention it but I also have OCCT, HWMonitor, CoreTemp all of these aren't picking it up well but Windows Task Manager, MSI Afterburner and RealTemp all pick up the CPU perfectly.

System: Intel Core i3 3240 @ 3.4GHz, EVGA GTX 960 SSC 2GB ACX 2.0, 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 Kingston HyperX RAM, ASRock B75M-DGS R2.0 Motherboard, Corsair CX430 W Power Supply

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Anything holding information can become corrupted.

 

I did the BIOS reflash didn't touch a single setting, just came straight into Windows. As suspected nothing changed in any of the programs so the BIOS was not the problem.

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Some monitoring programs use shared code so a simple bug in this code might cause the same problem in multiple programs.  

 

Can you post a screenshot of ThrottleStop?  It reports each thread individually so might show you if there is a problem or not.  It was written by the same programmer that wrote RealTemp (me) so uses some of the same code that RealTemp uses.  I also included a link to a newer version of RealTemp that was not widely released.

 

Screenshots help programmers see what code is working and what is not working.

 

Also go into msconfig and instead of selecting 4 processors, just leave that blank and then reboot.  There is no need to select a number of processors.  This setting causes problems sometimes.

 

ThrottleStop 8.00

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0dpSo9k93jDTE1fcHNtbUMwdGc

 

RealTemp T|I Edition

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0dpSo9k93jDZlpmbHNzeFlpcWc

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Some monitoring programs use shared code so a simple bug in this code might cause the same problem in multiple programs.  

 

Can you post a screenshot of ThrottleStop?  It reports each thread individually so might show you if there is a problem or not.  It was written by the same programmer that wrote RealTemp (me) so uses some of the same code that RealTemp uses.  I also included a link to a newer version of RealTemp that was not widely released.

 

Screenshots help programmers see what code is working and what is not working.

 

Also go into msconfig and instead of selecting 4 processors, just leave that blank and then reboot.  There is no need to select a number of processors.  This setting causes problems sometimes.

 

ThrottleStop 8.00

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0dpSo9k93jDTE1fcHNtbUMwdGc

 

RealTemp T|I Edition

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0dpSo9k93jDZlpmbHNzeFlpcWc

 

The msconfig was already set back. Here's the screenshots:

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System: Intel Core i3 3240 @ 3.4GHz, EVGA GTX 960 SSC 2GB ACX 2.0, 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 Kingston HyperX RAM, ASRock B75M-DGS R2.0 Motherboard, Corsair CX430 W Power Supply

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Thanks for the screenshots.  RealTemp and ThrottleStop confirm that they have no problem accessing both cores and all 4 threads of your CPU.

 

When you took those screenshots, was your CPU idle or was there anything running in the background?  If your CPU was supposed to be idle then you should use the Task Manager to find out what is running in the background.  The Load reported by RealTemp when idle should be down around 0.5%.  On a lean system, you should see a number even lower than that. 

 

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Thanks for the screenshots.  RealTemp and ThrottleStop confirm that they have no problem accessing both cores and all 4 threads of your CPU.

 

When you took those screenshots, was your CPU idle or was there anything running in the background?  If your CPU was supposed to be idle then you should use the Task Manager to find out what is running in the background.  The Load reported by RealTemp when idle should be down around 0.5%.  On a lean system, you should see a number even lower than that.

Yh at the time of the pictures I had a good amount of active processes running

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BIOS failure try to reset?

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BIOS failure try to reset?

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P95=hazard, also reset BIOS by removing battery helps unless you got a Linux version to test with to see if Windows is broken and not BIOS! :D

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Vishera-X8-9370 | R20 score MC: 1476cb

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Case: Cooler Master HAF XB Evo Black / Case Fan(s) Front: Noctua NF-A14 ULN 140mm Premium Fans / Case Fan(s) Rear: Corsair Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition (red) / Case Fan(s) Side: Noctua NF-A6x25 FLX 60mm Premium Fan / Case Fan VRM: SUNON MagLev KDE1209PTV3 92mm / Controller: Sony Dualshock 4 Wireless (DS4Windows) / Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo / CPU: AMD FX-8370 (Base: @4.4GHz | Turbo: @4.7GHz) Black Edition Eight-Core (Global Foundries 32nm) / Display: ASUS 24" LED VN247H (67Hz OC) 1920x1080p / GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GD5 OC "Afterburner" @1450MHz (T.S.M.C. 28nm) / GPU: Gigabyte Radeon RX Vega 56 Gaming OC @1501MHz (Samsung 14nm FinFET) / Keyboard: Logitech Desktop K120 (Nordic) / Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING, Socket-AM3+ / Mouse: Razer Abyssus 2014 / PCI-E: ASRock USB 3.1/A+C (PCI Express x4) / PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA G2, 850W PSU / RAM 1, 2, 3 & 4: Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1866MHz CL8-10-10-28-37-2T (4x4GB) 16.38GB / Operating System 1: Windows 10 Home / Sound: Zombee Z300 / Storage 1: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD (x2) / Storage 2: Seagate® Barracuda 2TB HDD / Storage 3: Seagate® Desktop 2TB SSHD / Wi-fi: TP-Link TL-WN951N 11n Wireless Adapter

Godavari-X4-880K | R20 score MC: 810cb

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Case: Medion Micro-ATX Case / Case Fan Front: SUNON MagLev PF70251VX-Q000-S99 70mm / Case Fan Rear: Fanner Tech(Shen Zhen)Co.,LTD. 80mm (Purple) / Controller: Sony Dualshock 4 Wireless (DS4Windows) / Cooler: AMD Near-silent 95w Thermal Solution / Cooler: AMD Near-silent 125w Thermal Solution / CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K Black Edition Elite Quad-Core (T.S.M.C. 28nm) / CPU: AMD Athlon X4 880K Black Edition Elite Quad-Core (T.S.M.C. 28nm) / Display: HP 19" Flat Panel L1940 (75Hz) 1280x1024 / GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SuperSC 2GB (T.S.M.C. 28nm) / GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GD5 OC "Afterburner" @1450MHz (T.S.M.C. 28nm) / Keyboard: HP KB-0316 PS/2 (Nordic) / Motherboard: MSI A78M-E45 V2, Socket-FM2+ / Mouse: Razer Abyssus 2014 / PCI-E: ASRock USB 3.1/A+C (PCI Express x4) / PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA G2, 550W PSU / RAM 1, 2, 3 & 4: SK hynix DDR3-1866MHz CL9-10-11-27-40 (4x4GB) 16.38GB / Operating System 1: Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) / Operating System 2: Windows 10 Home / Sound 1: Zombee Z500 / Sound 2: Logitech Stereo Speakers S-150 / Storage 1: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD (x2) / Storage 2: Western Digital My Passport 2.5" 2TB HDD / Storage 3: Western Digital Elements Desktop 2TB HDD / Wi-fi: TP-Link TL-WN851N 11n Wireless Adapter

Acer Aspire 7738G custom (changed CPU, GPU & Storage)
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CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, 2-cores, 2-threads, 2.4GHz, 3MB cache (Intel 45nm) / GPU: ATi Radeon HD 4570 515MB DDR2 (T.S.M.C. 55nm) / RAM: DDR2-1066MHz CL7-7-7-20-1T (2x2GB) / Operating System: Windows 10 Home / Storage: Crucial BX500 480GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5" SSD

Complete portable device SoC history:

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Apple A4 - Apple iPod touch (4th generation)
Apple A5 - Apple iPod touch (5th generation)
Apple A9 - Apple iPhone 6s Plus
HiSilicon Kirin 810 (T.S.M.C. 7nm) - Huawei P40 Lite / Huawei nova 7i
Mediatek MT2601 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - TicWatch E
Mediatek MT6580 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - TECNO Spark 2 (1GB RAM)
Mediatek MT6592M (T.S.M.C 28nm) - my|phone my32 (orange)
Mediatek MT6592M (T.S.M.C 28nm) - my|phone my32 (yellow)
Mediatek MT6735 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - HMD Nokia 3 Dual SIM
Mediatek MT6737 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - Cherry Mobile Flare S6
Mediatek MT6739 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - my|phone myX8 (blue)
Mediatek MT6739 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - my|phone myX8 (gold)
Mediatek MT6750 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - honor 6C Pro / honor V9 Play
Mediatek MT6765 (T.S.M.C 12nm) - TECNO Pouvoir 3 Plus
Mediatek MT6797D (T.S.M.C 20nm) - my|phone Brown Tab 1
Qualcomm MSM8926 (T.S.M.C. 28nm) - Microsoft Lumia 640 LTE
Qualcomm MSM8974AA (T.S.M.C. 28nm) - Blackberry Passport
Qualcomm SDM710 (Samsung 10nm) - Oppo Realme 3 Pro

 

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CPU-Z did have a problem reading cpu info at one point, are you using the latest cpu-z software? If Windows task manager reads fine, the problem is related to cpu-z.

 

Could be a corrupted file in registry. Probably a fresh install of Windows would fix it. You can freshinstall when windows 10 is released, I think the will offer cheap licenses in the beginning.

An update to this. Just upgraded to Windows 10 today, problems totally gone now so yep it was something that went bad in Windows registry causing the issues :)

System: Intel Core i3 3240 @ 3.4GHz, EVGA GTX 960 SSC 2GB ACX 2.0, 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 Kingston HyperX RAM, ASRock B75M-DGS R2.0 Motherboard, Corsair CX430 W Power Supply

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