Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my CPU?

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my CPU?

[Kevin Philp]

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
>
>
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>Studying Computer Science at the University of Valencia
>E-mail: abraham@alumni.uv.es
>Home page: http://mural.uv.es/abraham
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my CPU?

[Bastian Balthazar Bux]

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
>
>  
>
I think you need to re-set your bios, some bios has protection against 
overclock that reset the multiplier frequency of the cpu.
so reboot again, enter in your bios configuration and check/set it.
It's also possible that simply reboot again make things working.

ciao francesco


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Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my CPU?

[Billy]

Abraham Marin Perez wrote:
>     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

some BIOS's when they think the computer has locked up, assume it must 
have been because the cpu clock rate is wrong. The next time you boot, 
the BIOS will select a lower clock rate.

cat /proc/cpuinfo

and it will show you how Linux detects your cpu clock rate.

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Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my CPU?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Monday 13 December 2004 13:04, 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
>

an faulty asus board (with via chipset) around here resets the FSB from 133 to 
100 at every reboot. You have to cold boot it instead.  There was nothing 
that could be done to stop that behaviour (it was an old one and worked fine 
for some time for it first user).

Maybe the bios-battery got weak (we ruled that out here, but is maybe your 
problem)?

For the unplanned reboot: maybe it is time to remove dust from the 
cooler/heatsink? Or check the PSU that it got not weak?

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Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my CPU?

[A. Khattri]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Abraham Marin Perez wrote:

>     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.

Ive seen servers shut down due to a failed CPU fan...



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Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my CPU?

[Bastian Balthazar Bux]

A. Khattri wrote:

>On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Abraham Marin Perez wrote:
>
>  
>
>>    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.
>>    
>>
>
>Ive seen servers shut down due to a failed CPU fan...
>
>
>  
>
i.e. digital alpha with not so easy to find fan


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[gentoo-user] What happened to my CPU?

[Abraham Marin Perez]

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


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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"
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