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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • Hi, just to clear up some things. You say only some cores work. Yeah that’s not possible. This isn’t a car where some pistons can fire while others do not. A processor works or it doesn’t. There is no “oh only 3 out of the 8 cores work.”

    Two, no amount of reinstalling or software will fix a hardware fault.

    Possible or not, that’s the error message it was giving me. I don’t remember the exact wording, but it was something along the lines of one core was disabled or not functioning. I opened whatever the equivalent of Task Manager is called (it’s been a while), and the CPU was only showing one working core. In safe mode, it was showing two.

    Obviously nothing’s going to fix a hardware error, but seeing as the second core was apparently working in safe mode, it’s clearly a software error, hence the need for installation discs to wipe and reinstall the software. There’s a chance that the whole thing is screwed, and the CPU is dying, but I’m not going to know unless I test it.

    I’ve got some free time coming up, so I’m hoping to get everything ready beforehand and try to get this system working again :)