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Originally Posted by unclewebb

That little testing program shows that your processor is working correctly.

The Microsoft SetThreadAffinityMask() function forces the program to move to different cores. You follow the numbers down the Core 0 Column and then the Core 1 Column, Core 2 Column and finally the Core 3 column.

In this program, cores have this value:

Core 0 - 1
Core 1 - 2
Core 2 - 4
Core 3 - 8

When this program first starts it reports 15 which is equivalent to 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 which means the task has access to all 4 cores. My program then locks it to Core 0 so it reports 1 and when it locks it to core 2 it reports 4 and when it locks it to core 3 it reports 8. This shows all your cores are there.

The RealTemp code organizes the threads so they are associated with the correct core. The code I have written works 100% in Vista and Windows 7 but in some versions of XP and Server 2003, the MS functions I use to query the CPU about how many cores it has sometimes returns an incorrect value.

Anyway, the information you have provided me will greatly help me come up with a fix for you. I might have to come up with an INI option like ForceQuad=1 or some other trick to make sure that it has access to all 4 cores. I should have some time the next few days to work on RealTemp and hopefully get this problem solved for you.

Ok, Cool.