Recent content by Mitch47

The Win 7 install was clean- nothing in residue, and it was a new hard drive. I ran the checks without having loaded antivirus SW yet- and had only gone online to get Dell drivers and Win 7 updates before I got the feeling this was a dog. The problem isn't necessarily my concern for...

Yep-- I checked and the device manager only reports one core, although it does label it as P8600 2 Duo CPU. I get the feeling I've got a busted one. Gonna go buy another CPU and plug that one in. Hope I don't have to reload software because of the anti-theft thing in Windows- takes a lot of...

I bought a used Dell E6500 with an Intel dual core processor (supposedly) but Win 7 Task Manager only finds one core. I've got other computers running dual core and quad core processors, and Performance > CPU history > One Graph per CPU will read as many processors as the processor title says it...