Re: What AMD CPU is that ???

Re: What AMD CPU is that ???

[Ducrot Bruno]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:13:22PM +0100, Harald Milz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I dug a little bit more into my new (alleged?) AMD Athlon XP-M 2400+
> (Barton) using x86info-1.12a. According to the 512K cache it is
> indeed a Barton core but I suspect it's not a mobile. Please
> see the output of x86info and /pro/cpuinfo - the kernel (SuSE
> 2.4.21-166) says it's a Duron !). Essentially, I can't set
> the upper and lower frequency using /proc/cpufreq. According to
> http://fab51.fc2web.com/pc/refs/opn_guide.html, it is indeed a "Mainstream
> XP-M" (AXMH2400FQQ4C). Any idea why setting FID and VID don't work? What
> also worries me is the max FID of 13.5 which means I can't run this CPU at
> 18x100? Does that mean I need to get another board (one with a real FSB133
> and a BIOS that recognized this CPU)? ACPI won't work here because it's a
> Asus A7V board that the kernel will force to acpi=oldboot. 
> 

x86info is broken in order to know if you can set VID/FID.
This processor can only have a mult of 13.5 at max.

For the rest of your question, I don't know.

Cheers,

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