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[TommyTheGun]

Hi guys.

Sorry to bother you with problems like that, but I've been looking for the solution for quite some time and could not find anything that would help. Though I'm not the best google searcher, I do my best and normally its enough. This time google didnt help me and I figured out, that since on this forum theres a lot of active members, maybe some of you will be able to help me.

The problem is:

I got LG notebook (model E310) with Pentium Dual-Core in it. But the system doesnt detect the "other" core. It acts as one core and is really slow by the way. I installed win7 (it was vista in stock version). I didn't know if thats a drivers problem or something else. But Ive checked what I could.

None of the drivers from the CD or web seems to help, its still one core and in task mngr i can also see one core.

I decided to try to do some magic in BIOS and theres the problem.

I don't have the password to it. I know I didn't set it and I got the laptop from the authorised shop. I figured out that there should be some "origin password" but couldnt find any info how to decrypt it nor what the pass may be. I know that in other notebooks there are some easy passwords, but couldn't find any for my LG. And yeah - I can't just take out the BIOS battery for a while since I'm really not that sure about opening this notebook. I did some evil things to stationary CPUs but I wont risk it with laptop.

So thats how situation looks. If any of you got ANYTHING that might help even a tiny bit, please, write back.

[Bartosz]

Not sure if you can do anything but use the warranty (if still valid).

[Berko]

How do you check that your laptop use only 1 core?
Because you can choose if you want to see 1 graph per CPU/Core or 1 for all in the task manager .. but I think you already see that.

All model E310 from here : http://www.lge.com/ae/support/product/support-product.jsp look to have only driver for xp/vista. But driver for vista may works with seven .. but they don't write 'Seven' when it's write for another model.
Maybe ask to LG if your model can work good with seven. (OS choose sometimes generic driver which works a little ... but don't works as good as constructor driver)
It worked fine with Vista?

Password of your BIOS was enter by you or maybe your administrator if it's your job's laptop.
You can try some master-password in these list : http://www.xs4all.nl/~matrix/mpwlist.html and hope it works (check logo of your bios)
You can try to update BIOS with a new version.(see the first link to LG support)

[TommyTheGun]

Well...
"Because you can choose if you want to see 1 graph per CPU/Core or 1 for all in the task manager .. but I think you already see that."

Yep, I knew that already

"It worked fine with Vista?"

Nope, it didnt.

"It worked fine with Vista?"

Nope - it never worked.

"You can try some master-password in these list : http://www.xs4all.nl/~matrix/mpwlist.html and hope it works Smiley (check logo of your bios)"

Tried that as well.

"You can try to update BIOS with a new version.(see the first link to LG support)"

That was my last hope. I just couldnt manage to do it. You see... I had to make bootable USB flash. And i could not change booting sequence without a password for bios... I was screwed. I tried to get Win98 or WinXP disc cause as far as I can remember, you can enter BIOS from one of those. But none of my friends had it and I had no empty CD to burn Phoenix's BIOS nor booting CD.

Finally I decided to have it all or nothing so I opened my laptop.

And guess what

It worked. I didn't destroy it, managed to reset the BIOS, cleaned it so its super silent again After all - the option I feared to choose was the best one

Anyways - Thanks for help. I guess you can close this topic