Ok first of I will apologise for any typos or random words inserted as using my iPhone to post this and the predictive text is a bit wild sometimes anyhow. I found something out today that I think might interest some of you.
This all has to do with my testing I've been doing over the past few days with my 960T, I was wanting to run a bench for the team cup currently running on hwbot so installed a fresh install of win7, after installation I unlocked my cores and windows failed to boot, only making it as far as the flying balls logo before restarting (strange I thought ) as I had benched 5 & 6 cores on it before, so I disabled one core and it booted no problem, "one bad core" I hear you say , but as stated earlier I had already benched it as a 6 core but I used xp to bench it as a x6, at this point I was a bit confused, so decided to install a fresh copy of vista and after installation it booted straight in as a x6 no problem after much troubleshooting and help from team mates it turned out that one of the cores has a problem with running a 64bit OS as xp and vist were both 32bit installs and the win7 I was using was 64bit, after instaling win7 32bit it works a treat as a hex so if anyone has a 960t running a 64bit install and can't unlock all cores I would grab a spare drive and install a 32bit OS on it, and see if it works for you.
Mark
This all has to do with my testing I've been doing over the past few days with my 960T, I was wanting to run a bench for the team cup currently running on hwbot so installed a fresh install of win7, after installation I unlocked my cores and windows failed to boot, only making it as far as the flying balls logo before restarting (strange I thought ) as I had benched 5 & 6 cores on it before, so I disabled one core and it booted no problem, "one bad core" I hear you say , but as stated earlier I had already benched it as a 6 core but I used xp to bench it as a x6, at this point I was a bit confused, so decided to install a fresh copy of vista and after installation it booted straight in as a x6 no problem after much troubleshooting and help from team mates it turned out that one of the cores has a problem with running a 64bit OS as xp and vist were both 32bit installs and the win7 I was using was 64bit, after instaling win7 32bit it works a treat as a hex so if anyone has a 960t running a 64bit install and can't unlock all cores I would grab a spare drive and install a 32bit OS on it, and see if it works for you.
Mark