How to fix that only one out of four cores of my CPU is detected?
Holy macaroni. I apparently solved the issue. In short:
- I changed the BIOS value
Installer OS select
toOther
(the alternative beingWindows
) - I prayed and tried to boot WITHOUT the
nolapic
kernel boot parameter. - It started Ubuntu like a charm (not sure about the impact of praying though)
The
lscpu
now givesArchitecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 4 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 4 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 23 Stepping: 10 CPU MHz: 2336.000 BogoMIPS: 4666.66 L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 2048K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3
I cross validated with
top
while running couple of computation intensive processes3504 username 20 0 139m 47m 4308 R 100 1.2 4:57.11 R 3444 username 20 0 140m 47m 4316 R 99 1.2 5:24.08 R
I can finally heat my flat
Thanks a lot for your help and leads. I'm not so sure what I actually did, but it works. Special thanks for the BIOS lead. I would have never thought about messing around with the options...
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Qiou Bi over 1 year
I have an Acer Aspire M5640/M3640 PC, featuring a Intel Core 2 Q8200 (Quad-core) processor running Ubuntu 12.04.
Now it seems to only recognize just one CPU core.
lscpu
outputs:Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 1 On-line CPU(s) list: 0 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 1 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 23 Stepping: 10 CPU MHz: 2333.403 BogoMIPS: 4666.80 L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 2048K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0
I would have expected to have
Core(s) per socket
andCPU(s)
to have4
listed as value here.An important note is that I can't boot it regularly, but I need the
nolapic
kernel boot parameter to avoid a hard freeze during boot.Speaking of booting, the firmware version is
Version: R01-C2
Any thoughts on the ability to use all four cores will be highly appreciated.
More info
dmesg
gives:[ 0.000000] Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override. [ 0.000000] If you got timer trouble try acpi_use_timer_override [ 0.000000] SFI: Simple Firmware Interface v0.81 http://simplefirmware.org [ 0.000000] Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 [ 0.000000] MPTABLE: OEM ID: nVidia [ 0.000000] MPTABLE: Product ID: MCP73 [ 0.000000] MPTABLE: APIC at: 0xFEE00000 [ 0.000000] Processor #0 (Bootup-CPU) [ 0.000000] Processor #1 [ 0.000000] Processor #2 [ 0.000000] Processor #3 [ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 [ 0.000000] Processors: 4 [ 0.000000] SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
and
lshw -class cpu
*-cpu description: CPU product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz vendor: Intel Corp. physical id: 4 bus info: cpu@0 version: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M. slot: SOCKET775 M/B size: 2333MHz capacity: 2333MHz width: 64 bits clock: 333MHz capabilities: x86-64 fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm dtherm configuration: cores=4 enabledcores=4 threads=4 *-processor UNCLAIMED description: Co-processor product: MCP73 Co-processor vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 3.3 bus info: pci@0000:00:03.3 version: a2 width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: bus_master configuration: latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 resources: memory:fce80000-fcefffff
and
dmidecode
:BIOS Information Vendor: American Megatrends Inc. Version: R01-C2 Release Date: 02/26/2009 Address: 0xF0000 Runtime Size: 64 kB ROM Size: 1024 kB Characteristics: ISA is supported PCI is supported PNP is supported APM is supported BIOS is upgradeable BIOS shadowing is allowed ESCD support is available Boot from CD is supported Selectable boot is supported BIOS ROM is socketed EDD is supported 5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h) 3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h) 3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h) 8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h) Serial services are supported (int 14h) Printer services are supported (int 17h) CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h) ACPI is supported USB legacy is supported LS-120 boot is supported ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported BIOS boot specification is supported Targeted content distribution is supported BIOS Revision: 8.15 System Information Manufacturer: ACER Product Name: Aspire M5640/M3640 Version: R01-C2 Serial Number: 91EER71ZCP93401DDA1800 UUID: Not Present Wake-up Type: Power Switch SKU Number: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Family: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Base Board Information Manufacturer: ACER Product Name: MCP73PV Version: NVIDIA MCP73 Serial Number: 000000000 Asset Tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Features: Board is a hosting board Board is replaceable Location In Chassis: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Chassis Handle: 0x0003 Type: Motherboard Contained Object Handles: 0
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Qiou Bi over 11 yearsThanks for your valuable comment. I added the
lshw -class cpu
command output and it seems that the CPU is `Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz'. I don't know whether this helps. I will try 12.10 live CD and keep posted. -
Qiou Bi over 11 yearsThere you go,
dmidecode
seemed to work (I edited the original post). -
Qiou Bi over 11 years
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