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 -- Hey dad, I smell clowns. --Sydney Lucier Black holes are where God divided by zero. Silly God! --Dale L. Houston The factory of the future will have only two employees: a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. --Warren Bennis As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I really wish he'd go away. --Hughes Mearns A hill is just a straightaway with a vertical dimension. --Andy Grosser ----------------- Mark Lucier Public Schools of CLK 57070 Mine Street Calumet, MI 49913 Phn 906-337-0311 Ext 1110 Fax 906-337-3848 mlucier@clk.k12.mi.us
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
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Hey dad, I smell clowns. --Sydney Lucier
Black holes are where God divided by zero. Silly God! --Dale L. Houston
The factory of the future will have only two employees: a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. --Warren Bennis
As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I really wish he'd go away. --Hughes Mearns
A hill is just a straightaway with a vertical dimension. --Andy Grosser
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Mark Lucier Public Schools of CLK 57070 Mine Street Calumet, MI 49913 Phn 906-337-0311 Ext 1110 Fax 906-337-3848 mlucier@clk.k12.mi.us
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Mark, Have you altered the bios settings for the new cpu? I have an Athlon and had a similar problem going from an 1800 to a 2200 Steve.
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
--
Hey dad, I smell clowns. --Sydney Lucier
Black holes are where God divided by zero. Silly God! --Dale L. Houston
The factory of the future will have only two employees: a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. --Warren Bennis
As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I really wish he'd go away. --Hughes Mearns
A hill is just a straightaway with a vertical dimension. --Andy Grosser
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Mark Lucier Public Schools of CLK 57070 Mine Street Calumet, MI 49913 Phn 906-337-0311 Ext 1110 Fax 906-337-3848 mlucier@clk.k12.mi.us
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Mark,
Have you altered the bios settings for the new cpu?
I have an Athlon and had a similar problem going from an 1800 to a 2200
Steve.
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-- Hey dad, I smell clowns. --Sydney Lucier Black holes are where God divided by zero. Silly God! --Dale L. Houston The factory of the future will have only two employees: a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. --Warren Bennis As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I really wish he'd go away. --Hughes Mearns A hill is just a straightaway with a vertical dimension. --Andy Grosser ----------------- Mark Lucier Public Schools of CLK 57070 Mine Street Calumet, MI 49913 Phn 906-337-0311 Ext 1110 Fax 906-337-3848 mlucier@clk.k12.mi.us
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
I expected that to happen also. Bios settings are correct as Windows recognizes the proper speed along with CPU type data gathering apps I have used. I will keep digging. Thanks for the reply. Patrick wrote:
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.
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-- Hey dad, I smell clowns. --Sydney Lucier Black holes are where God divided by zero. Silly God! --Dale L. Houston The factory of the future will have only two employees: a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. --Warren Bennis As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I really wish he'd go away. --Hughes Mearns A hill is just a straightaway with a vertical dimension. --Andy Grosser ----------------- Mark Lucier Public Schools of CLK 57070 Mine Street Calumet, MI 49913 Phn 906-337-0311 Ext 1110 Fax 906-337-3848 mlucier@clk.k12.mi.us
Mark Lucier <mlucier@clk.k12.mi.us> wrote:
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.
No, I've swapped mother boards on my computer going from an Intel CPU, to an Athlon processor with minimal hasle. What I suggest you do is install the Athlon specific kernel k_athlon.rpm in your machine. Linux hardly uses the BIOS, so whatever it says will usually be ignored by Linux. Who knows what hwinfo is doing at this point, it may be reading its old info files and not enquiring the hardware directly. To see the cpu info run this command: cat /proc/cpuinfo -- Rafael
Thanks for the information. The results where what I expected. Where does "hwinfo" gets its information from anyway? Mark "Rafael E. Herrera" wrote:
Mark Lucier <mlucier@clk.k12.mi.us> wrote:
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.
No, I've swapped mother boards on my computer going from an Intel CPU, to an Athlon processor with minimal hasle.
What I suggest you do is install the Athlon specific kernel k_athlon.rpm in your machine.
Linux hardly uses the BIOS, so whatever it says will usually be ignored by Linux.
Who knows what hwinfo is doing at this point, it may be reading its old info files and not enquiring the hardware directly. To see the cpu info run this command:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
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-- Hey dad, I smell clowns --Sydney Lucier Black holes are where God divided by zero. Silly God! --Dale L. Houston The factory of the future will have only two employees: a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. --Warren Bennis As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I really wish he'd go away. --Hughes Mearns A hill is just a straightaway with a vertical dimension. --Andy Grosser ----------------- Mark Lucier Public Schools of CLK 57070 Mine Street Calumet, MI 49913 Phn 906-337-0311 Ext 1110 Fax 906-337-3848 mlucier@clk.k12.mi.us
Mark Lucier wrote:
Thanks for the information. The results where what I expected. Where does "hwinfo" gets its information from anyway?
after you run hwinfo, the results of the scan are stored in individual files at /var/lib/hardware/unique-keys. Now, when you called with whatever options you used to get info on your CPU, it may have read an old file in that directory. If you run just 'hwinfo', it actually probes the hardware. -- Rafael
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