Only one Core working in VGN-SZ4N?

[adelmus]

I found out that one Core of the Intel Core 2 Duo in my notebook is deactivated.
There is no place in the bios or anywhere else to turn it on.
Does anybody know if this is by design or a fault?

adelmus

[apierc1]

I don't know much about these, but is it possible it is "activated" when needed? I wouldn't imagine they would put it in and not use it by design, that would just be pointless.

[adelmus]

Well, as I have two other desktop-PC with Core 2 Duo I know where to look, and in Cpu-Z one can see there are two cores but only one is activated. Maybe this is to save power, maybe because the cpu would be getting to hot?
But I can not find any info about that anywhere and this should have been mentioned by sony.

A.

[kee-lo_]

Are you using any power saving schemes?

[Blencogo]

Have you got the hardware switch set to Stamina or to Speed?

[adelmus]

No, I do not use any power saving schemas. The main change when using one is anyway the reducing of the frequence to 1000.
And I have the switch set to speed. But that is only changing to another graficprocessor from nvidea.
As far as I know, there are mainboards where one can deactivate one core but there is nothing to change in the setting. I suppose it may be blocked because of the temperature?
Is anyone there who has the same brand and two cores are working?

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