magic6435 Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Been rocking the osx for 2 days now and im loving it but, I started to wonder why it was running so slugish and Bam! looked that the "about this mac" and it says Processor Name: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ Processor Speed: 2.2 GHz Total Number Of Cores: 1 L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB The part that is evil is the TOTAL NUMBER OF CORES: 1 AHHHHH!!!! how would one go about fixing this? i heard about changing a boot flag or something but i have no idea what im doing. any help would be awsome. Thanks. Mike. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53143-only-1-core-working-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusthacker Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Check in Bio's see if you have single cpu mode enabled or disabled other then that im not sure hope it helps Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53143-only-1-core-working-help/#findComment-378911 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntsmkfob Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 Open Activity Monitor in Applications/Utilities. Check on the CPU tab if it shows 2 cpus (2 graphs). If so, you just have a reporting problem and both cores are actually being used. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53143-only-1-core-working-help/#findComment-378913 Share on other sites More sharing options...
magic6435 Posted June 6, 2007 Author Share Posted June 6, 2007 Open Activity Monitor in Applications/Utilities. Check on the CPU tab if it shows 2 cpus (2 graphs). If so, you just have a reporting problem and both cores are actually being used. Damn your right i have 2 graphs. Humm it is running so slow i was hoping it was broken lol. It just took an hour to extract a 2 gig file Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53143-only-1-core-working-help/#findComment-378924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
magic6435 Posted June 6, 2007 Author Share Posted June 6, 2007 I think its my hard drives they are running crazy slow. i did that xbench thing and it is CRAzy slow like 1.6 mb. So what do i need to fix that ? better ata drivers or something? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53143-only-1-core-working-help/#findComment-378963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
delish Posted June 6, 2007 Share Posted June 6, 2007 your harddrives are prob running with the genericATA apple driver. What motherboard do you have? I had the the same issues before I found the fix for my mobo (look in signature for link) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53143-only-1-core-working-help/#findComment-378988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
magic6435 Posted June 6, 2007 Author Share Posted June 6, 2007 your harddrives are prob running with the genericATA apple driver. What motherboard do you have?I had the the same issues before I found the fix for my mobo (look in signature for link) DFI CFX 3200 South bridge: ULI M1575 Im using just normal ata133 drives. I pluged in a external 250 gig USB drive and got like 13x better transfer.... at that point i started crying. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53143-only-1-core-working-help/#findComment-379009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
magic6435 Posted June 7, 2007 Author Share Posted June 7, 2007 Just wanted to let you guys know i went out and picked up 2 200 gig SATA drives today and they are working perfect right out the box. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53143-only-1-core-working-help/#findComment-379270 Share on other sites More sharing options...
delish Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 ULi 1575 southbridge is the same one thats on my board, so good chance you can get your ATA working by following Black Knight's guide for it (link in my signature) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/53143-only-1-core-working-help/#findComment-379576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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