[ale] I'm confused

[Drag0n]

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