From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29651 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2004 12:38:49 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 6 Dec 2004 12:38:49 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CbI8f-0004H2-1l for arch-gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:38:49 +0000 Received: (qmail 3792 invoked by uid 89); 6 Dec 2004 12:38:32 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-user-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 29683 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2004 12:38:32 +0000 From: Kevin Philp Organization: CyberColloids To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:39:17 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <1102939480.10176.16.camel@jimmy.homenetwork> In-Reply-To: <1102939480.10176.16.camel@jimmy.homenetwork> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412061239.17023.kevin@cybercolloids.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cybercolloids.net Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my CPU? X-Archives-Salt: d3937761-7260-4f9a-8e92-774a1cb99fbe X-Archives-Hash: 2a3f3868600025cc3a5df446eff71559 What motherboard and BIOS do you have? There can be a problem with Award bios based motherboards that causes the bios to fail to find the frequency/multiplier settings from processor. Usually it would drop you into the bios with an error message. You can set the frequency manually there. However when it happened to me the board had to be dumped, it was an Asus A7V600 runing an AMD 1800 Kevin. On Monday 13 December 2004 12:04, Abraham Marin Perez wrote: >Hi everyone: > > Lately I had a very weird problem with my CPU. I keep my computer on >due to I hold a web page and some other stuff, but this morning my >computer was off. I ruled out tension or current peaks because I have an >UPS and no other electronic device at home seems to be affected by such >a thing, so I guess it had to be dued to something in my computer. > > But that's not all. The actual problem is that when I turned it on >my system didn't recognise my AMD Athlon XP 1700 (what I had and have) >but just an AMD Athlon 1100. I haven't been able to find out whether >it's actually working at this lower speed or it's just a naming problem, >but anyway this seems to be a quite bizarre problem. > >Is there anyone who has any idea about what happened and why? Thanks, >Abraham > > >************************************************************************ >Abraham Marin Perez >Studying Computer Science at the University of Valencia >E-mail: abraham@alumni.uv.es >Home page: http://mural.uv.es/abraham > >"Software is not expensive, but you don't know it" >************************************************************************ > > > >-- >gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list