Quote Originally Posted by Mxtra
I have a big problem. The second core on my 6600 stops working after I leave my pc on for a while. When I reboot, it goes back to normal. It'll then work fine for a few hours or maybe several days straight, but eventually it happens again. I'll run something multithreaded and the first core will be maxed out and the second core will be virtually unused. I tried a fresh install with xp pro and home and same problem with both. I ran Othos the last time it happened and got the following error message: Affinity Mask: Process: 0x1 Sys: 0x3. Anyone have any ideas on what's going on?
Sounds like a software problem to me. I'd think if one core really became dead/comatose it would cause nasty things to happen.