On Thursday 05 December 2002 10:49 am, Mark Lucier wrote:
Yes I have. I have tried the Auto and Manual settings. I have tried "safe" low settings also. Thanks for the reply.
Steve Nicholls wrote:
On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 08:04:51 -0500
Mark Lucier <mlucier@clk.k12.mi.us> wrote:
Hello list. I may have a dumb question. Recently I purchased 8.1 Professional and began playing around with it. Originally it was installed with a SOYO 7VDA mobo and VIA C3 650 MHz (dual boot with Windows 98 SE). I am using a low end Nvidia Vanta 16 MB AGP graphics card. Using "Gears" gears rotate fast and smooth. Everything runs solid. Distro games run smooth. Now I purchased (got a great deal actually) on a brand new boxed VIA C3 933 MHz CPU and fan. Installed it and POST reports the proper speed and FSB/multiplier information Windows sees it. Belarc (under Windows) advisor reports all is ok along with 3rd party CPU ID/test applications see it properly. 8.1 Pro is another story. Gears are clunky and hwinfo displays the original 650 MHz CPU information. I have not tried using the Control center to see what is being reported yet but I guess my question is, do I have to reinstall 8.1? Any help is appreciated and thanks in advance.
Mark
Hi Mark, Unless there is a oddity between your two cpus, things should have just fell into place for you. I just did a cpu update as well, moving from AthlonXP 1700+ to AthlonXP 2100+ and the only thing I needed to do was just adjust my BIOS settings to max out the cpu installed. No other changes were necessary and Linux went about it's business as usual. I can't offer much more than that as I am not familar with that cpu nor your SOYO mobo. Check the BIOS & make sure the system shows the correct numbers. Patrick --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206