[ale] I'm confused

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:01:59PM -0500, Drag0n wrote:
> I had a similar issue on a Asus A7N8X motherboard (rev 1.04)  and i had
> to flash the bios. once that was done, it recognised the correct speed.

	Oh THAT really blows goats.  If that's true, someone needs to
have a politically-incorrect discussion with a vendor over their
ancestory, sexual preferences and hiegenic practices!  :-0  That
would be simply inexcusable to ship a MB which could not correctly
identify and configure the CPU (or did you purchase them separately -
if so, they could weasel out of the discussion).

> Drag0n
> dragon at atlantacon.org

	Just my mild-manered opionion.  :-)

> On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 19:35, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > I purchased an AMD Duron 2400+ And when I cat /proc/cpuinfo I get the
> > following:
> > 
> > [root at cms root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
> > processor       : 0
> > vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> > cpu family      : 6
> > model           : 8
> > model name      : mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP-M 1500+
> > stepping        : 0
> > cpu MHz         : 1300.060
> > cache size      : 256 KB
> > fdiv_bug        : no
> > hlt_bug         : no
> > f00f_bug        : no
> > coma_bug        : no
> > fpu             : yes
> > fpu_exception   : yes
> > cpuid level     : 1
> > wp              : yes
> > flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca
> > cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
> > bogomips        : 2595.22
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > What gives?  Why is the MHz and bogomips so slow?

	Mike
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