Quote Originally Posted by Crazybob View Post
That very well could have been the case. Was just a little shocked to so many cores idle and have CPU-Z say that it was a 1 core machine.
Yafu would not affect CPU-Z, at least not directly. It sounds like a hardware issue since (IIRC) CPU-Z reads the hardware, including CPU, directly. It uses some polling technique to grab hardware IDs and such. So CPU-Z calling a quad-care something else would indicate a problem with the hardware. Maybe something is overheating or being under-volted.

I would suggest a visual inspection of that system, clean out any dust and physically reseat all cards and connectors. Then power up and look for anything that is not working like it should. Also inspect any diagnostic LEDs/displays and check them against the trouble-codes listed in your user manual. If all is well then consider running Prime95 for an hour or so. It is used to stress test CPU and RAM, and does it very well. If P95 detects any serious errors it will automatically shut down the test. One other test to run is memtest86+ which is included in your Win7 install disk or can be booted from a USB thumb drive.

Forgot to add that before you run P95 consider resetting BIOS to factory defaults and maybe backup your BIOS if your system has that feature.

If all that checks out okay then I would suggest running all the usual maintenance utilities like Malwarebytes, anti-virus, disk defrag, CCleaner, and if you have it, run a registry defrag.