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I have an i5 4460 and on the task manger it says there is only 2 logical processors. But on the device manger it shows 4. On the bios it has 4 enabled but only 2 is being used. On msconfig I can only set it to 2 

Does that mean the other 2 are dead cores? 

 

Motherboard: B85M - D3H Rev2.0

Bios version: FD

 

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Set the MSCONFIG to AUTO reboot then recheck.

I say this because if it was already on NOTAUTO and you swapped, this can trigger weirdness.

 

Check AUTO, reboot and recheck Auto to see if it now allows allcores in the list.

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6 minutes ago, Kaizez said:

I think this is because of hyperthreading so you  have 4 virtual cores (and 2 physical)

That CPU is an actual quad core.

2 hours ago, Bobbestfriend said:

I have an i5 4460 and on the task manger it says there is only 2 logical processors. But on the device manger it shows 4. On the bios it has 4 enabled but only 2 is being used. On msconfig I can only set it to 2 

Does that mean the other 2 are dead cores? 

 

Motherboard: B85M - D3H Rev2.0

Bios version: FD

 

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Check in the bios if it was set to use only 2 cores.

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3 minutes ago, Bobbestfriend said:

In the bios it is set to 4 cores enabled but only 2 is being used

Strange.. Well task manager can sometimes be flaky. Download CPU-Z and check if it is showing correctly.

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Reset your BIOS to defaults.

 

15 minutes ago, yaboistar said:

is this a clean install or is this an install you've carried over through an upgrade

Looking at their recent posts they recently swapped CPUs from a Pentium dual core to the i5. They had a few problems getting the motherboard to boot with the i5 CPU so something could be screwy.

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