I have an AMD X2 6000, but I'm not seeing two graphs in the cpu usage tab

[retinchet]

Hello everybody

I have an AMD X2 6000, but I'm not seeing two graphs in the cpu usage tab. I started to notice a big drop off in performance and I knew it couldn't be viruses, because I know my pc is clean. Could a core have died or gone bad somehow? I have Windows XP Pro and 3 gigs of ram on a Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H mobo.  I just don't know what the problem is. I'm really starting to miss the blazing performance. Please help me.  Thanks for your help.

[Eppinizer]

Do you have the task manager set to "one graph for all cpus" instead of "one graph per cpu"?

You can find that option under computer history.

[retinchet]

Yes, it is set at one graph per cpu.  My performance is suffering big time and it seems like i'm running on 1 processor. Also, I went under boot.ini to see if i Could boot up with 2 cores, and it shows only 1. What can the problem be?

[patio]

Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager...
How is it showing up there ? ?

[retinchet]

Yes, it shows it as an ACPI multi processor PC. I also checked for processor updates and there are none.

[retinchet]

NVM, I solved the problem !!!!!! I just needed to set the boot.ini to default. Thank you all for trying to help.

[patio]

Then there's nothing to lose sleep over.
If it is running slower than usual do all your normal housekeeping: disk cleanup; defrag; all malware scans etc.
Check the free space on your drive and double check device manager for any yellow !!'s.
Let us know...

[retinchet]

The speed is back, it's blazing fast. I haven't had any viruses or spyware for over 2 years, since I first installed Kaspersky antivirus, so I knew malware wasn't the problem.

[BC_Programmer]

I went under boot.ini to see if i Could boot up with 2 cores, and it shows only 1. What can the problem be?

That was the problem. boot.ini was forcing an affinity on the entire machine.