[ale] I'm confused

[Chris Fowler]

Motherboard is PC Chips M810D

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