Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Dual athlon XP 1800 problems | Date | 3 Jan 2002 09:48:15 -0800 |
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Followup to: <20020103165321.GA737@bombe.modem.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> By author: Andreas Bombe <bombe@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > The identification string is written by the BIOS. Yours didn't know > about XPs so it misidentified them as MPs. Upgrade your BIOS if this > bugs you. > > If ID string contradicts what you think you bought, don't trust the ID > string. >
This seems very odd. I thought in Athlon processors the ID string came from the *CPU* (via CPUID), not the BIOS...
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