Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: CPU misdetection and, (probably unrelated) IDE data corruption | Date | Thu, 20 Mar 2003 19:58:54 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > * Misdetection of an Athlon 1700XP as a Duron > > model name : AMD Duron(tm) Processor > > This string is set by the BIOS at power-on time. > If it really is an Athlon, your BIOS is horked. > Try upgrading it.
The story behind this machine is that I was building it as cheaply as possible for my parents, (just to browse the web, and write E-Mail).
I never use pre-assembled hardware, prefering to build my boxes from scratch, but I broke that rule to save money, and recommended that they bought a pre-assembled case, motherboard, ram and cpu.
To cut a long story short, the board was jumpered for 100 instead of 133, and when re-jumpered at 133, it crashes during init.
It's being returned tomorrow, and from now on, I build systems from scratch. Always.
> Out of curiosity, what does x86info[1] make of it ?
x86info v1.12. Dave Jones 2001-2003 Feedback to <davej@suse.de>.
Found 1 CPU -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Family: 6 Model: 8 Stepping: 1 CPU Model : Athlon XP (Thoroughbred)[B0]
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