hyperthreading Hyperthreading?

[Yuukii_]

i got a question, i got my brother's old laptop and was gonna use it for some gaming and light content creation to use until i finish saving up the money to finish my gaming rig. the thing is that the cpu thats inside of this laptop says that it supports hyperthreading, i went into the bios and enabled it, disabled other processor features like "speedstep" and looking through the task manager, i only see two cores still. 

 

the cpu is an Intel Core i5-540m, and im using Windows 7 Ultimate. the Ark Intel website it does support hyperthreading, so i assuming im doing something wrong. please help, it would be appreciated, thanks.

[Princess Luna]

Lol one of the cores isn't working, could it be a rare case of still functioning yet malfunctioning defective CPU? [:

 

Hyper-Threading is working as the system acknowledges one hyper-threaded core the problem is that though only one  

[Yuukii_]

3 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Lol one of the cores isn't working, could it be a rare case of still functioning yet malfunctioning defective CPU? [:

 

Hyper-Threading is working as the system acknowledges one hyper-threaded core the problem is that though only one  

oh fuck alright, i think my brother bought this used off ebay anyway. thats probably why it was on ebay, alright then, thanks for the responce

[Crunchy Dragon]

Hit the Windows key on the Keyboard, type in "msconfig", and click on the Boot/Advanced tab. Change the Number of Processors to what you want it to be.

 

This may require a reboot, I don't remember off the top of my head if it does.

 

[Sir Asvald]

14 minutes ago, South_Korea said:

oh fuck alright, i think my brother bought this used off ebay anyway. thats probably why it was on ebay, alright then, thanks for the responce

Check in the bios the CPU is set to 1 core. 

[Coaxialgamer]

Check the bios. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

It could also be that Hyperthreading is disabled.

 

(Nevermind, didn't read the post carefully enough)

Edited December 14, 2017 by M.Yurizaki

[Yuukii_]

2 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Hit the Windows key on the Keyboard, type in "msconfig", and click on the Boot/Advanced tab. Change the Number of Processors to what you want it to be.

 

This may require a reboot, I don't remember off the top of my head if it does.

 

its already at dual core.

[Yuukii_]

3 hours ago, Abdul201588 said:

Check in the bios the CPU is set to 1 core. 

i have the bios to use all cores