Several people have already pointed you to the Bios and the front side
bus as your problem. If this was one of the advertised Fry's specials,
there may be one other issue. Fry's likes to pair an older motherboard
with a newer processor to clear out the old stock. In some cases, the
motherboard will not run the processor at full speed because nothing as
fast as that processor was out there when the motherboard was made.
This can often be fixed by downloading the latest Bios and re-flashing
the Bios on the motherboard.
Good Luck.
Devin
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 19:53, Craig Brooksby wrote:
> >From the newbie zone:
> I built my Linux box, with this CPU from Fry's: Athlon XP 2200+.
> But when I boot, the BIOS reports "AMD 1500+"
> Hey pal, that's 700 MHz short of what I paid for! :-(
>
> So I searched around and learned how to do this: "cat /proc/cpuinfo"
>
> This is what it says:
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family : 6
> model : 8
> model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1500+
> stepping : 1
> cpu MHz : 1344.297
> cache size : 256 KB
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 1
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr
> pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext
> 3dnow
> bogomips : 2680.42
>
> In other words, the missing 700 MHz is really "Marketing MHz" meant to
> say it runs as fast as an Intel processor at 2200 MHz? Can anybody read
> these tea leaves and help me understand whether I am getting everything
> out of my processor? Thanks -- Craig
>
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