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From: Bastian Balthazar Bux <BastianBalthazarBux@×××××××××.it>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my CPU?
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:14:36
Message-Id: 41B45320.9070700@pnpitalia.it
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] What happened to my CPU? by Abraham Marin Perez
1 Abraham Marin Perez wrote:
2
3 >Hi everyone:
4 >
5 > Lately I had a very weird problem with my CPU. I keep my computer on
6 >due to I hold a web page and some other stuff, but this morning my
7 >computer was off. I ruled out tension or current peaks because I have an
8 >UPS and no other electronic device at home seems to be affected by such
9 >a thing, so I guess it had to be dued to something in my computer.
10 >
11 > But that's not all. The actual problem is that when I turned it on
12 >my system didn't recognise my AMD Athlon XP 1700 (what I had and have)
13 >but just an AMD Athlon 1100. I haven't been able to find out whether
14 >it's actually working at this lower speed or it's just a naming problem,
15 >but anyway this seems to be a quite bizarre problem.
16 >
17 >Is there anyone who has any idea about what happened and why? Thanks,
18 >Abraham
19 >
20 >
21 >
22 I think you need to re-set your bios, some bios has protection against
23 overclock that reset the multiplier frequency of the cpu.
24 so reboot again, enter in your bios configuration and check/set it.
25 It's also possible that simply reboot again make things working.
26
27 ciao francesco
28
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