[ale] I'm confused

Robert Heaven robertheaven at earthlink.net
Thu Feb 19 20:55:32 EST 2004


I have 2 PC Chips MB and both have a jumper for bus speed (100/133). I
don't know if that would make it recognize the CPU incorrectly. Maybe
you got the wrong CPU....

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 20:28, Drag0n wrote:

> they were bought seprately, and its not the first time i have
> encountered similar. IBM systems actually mention CPU bios update codes
> in their bios change logs. It seems if the system firmware doesn't have
> the cpu firmware to upload on initialization, it wont always work
> properly. 
> 
> 
> Drag0n
> dragon at atlantacon.org 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 20:07, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > 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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