Hi I am trying to run change the BIOS setting in Acer V3 771G-6662 to support multiple cores. I called Best Buy Geek Squad (where I also have a warranty) and the moron who answered said they don't support any thing but Windoze, doesn't know what a BIOS is blah and hung up, I called a second time, and the guy was a little more honest and said they can change the BIOS but I hav to bring in it(no reason why!). Finally I had an online chat with a Geek Squad online support guy who was much mor helpful saying new machines use the UEFI standard but said the same thing, I have to bring the laptop in to where I bought it if I want to change the BIOS. Finally, I chatted online with a much more helpful Acer support person who showed me a link to get rid of UEFI and go back to legacy BIOS boot up. Unfortunately, while that was very helpful, and I commend Acer for being much more help than the NON Geek "Geek" squad Windoze only guys at Best Buy, I need to know how to change the BIOS so as to set up the Intel i5 processor to use all 4 CPU cores I read somewhere that I can run MSCONFIG in Windows8 and setup all 4 cores and even maximize memory. The only problem is that Oracle Viirtual ir Box doesn't use the MSCONFIG Windows 8 setup (not surprisely as it is a virtual machine!). I want to boot up a Debian Linux distribution called PelicanHPC which runs GNU Octave on all 4 cores and even clusters. Unfortunately, I can't run it in other than 1 core.
Any help would be appreciated. Note I can boot up the ISO file after setting up Legacy bootup in BIOS but prefer to run it under Oracle VirtualBox having had bad experience with dual boot Ubuntu. I don't want ot run in on LiveCD or install a dual boot1
If anyone can help, much appreciated.
