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02-05-2021 08:33 PM - edited 02-05-2021 08:51 PM
Tried going into bios setting to change my fan speed but all i did was restart my computer using only 2 cores with virtualization being disabled, what i did was restart my computer and while it was restarting i was pressing ESC key continuously and then pressing f10 or something too but the bios didnt boot up all I got from that was my cpu only using 2 cores instead of 4.
Tried going to msconfig and changing it to 4 cores in boot advance options but it did nothing . Can anyone help?
pc motherboard is a sunflower motherboard
EDIT: supposedly you can turn on vertualiztion in Bios advance settings, finally i got bios to boot up but theirs no option to turn on vertualization
02-06-2021 11:13 AM
Sorry -- but you don't! Why? Because in HP PCs that come preloaded with Windows 10, that is loaded in UEFI mode -- and if you force the change to Legacy mode, Windows will no longer boot.
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02-07-2021 12:23 AM
You won't have Virtualization as an option as that's only supported for Intel CPU's. Yours is AMD.
You usually can enable / disable hyper-threading in BIOS, but if you actually have a Ryzen 5 2400G then you should have 4 cores no hyper-threading and 8 cores with hyper-threading.
If you're only running 2 cores, then something weird has happened in Windows or you've got some serious problem with hardware.
I can't remember exactly where the hyper-threading option is .. Look for 'multi core support' in BIOS and make sure it's enabled.