System Properties Error in Reporting A Non-Existant Overclock

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PallindroneT3604

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After an upgrade in processor from a Celeron 128 to a P4 532 w/HTT, when I open the "System Properties" of My Computer in XP it's reporting a 4.5 to 5.11GHZ overclock on the Operating Frequency. No overclock was applied on this Toshiba Satellite A65-S126 laptop. CPUZ reports the normal 3.067GHZ freq operation....XP & Everest report 5.11GHZ. Also, after a Java update, it was fine....but started back up w/the wrong freq report again. Any educated guess would be appreciated. I think although the BIOS was the last one reported from Tosh for it, there's a SNAFU in ID'ing the HTT.... any thoughts?
 
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Is it possible that the motherboard is reading the COMBINED frequency of the native, hi-power frequency (3.06GHZ), plus the low power frequency (1.8ghz) and the hyperthreaded P4, w/ a 2nd virtual core, is being interpreted as a combined super-fast CPU? The make is ID'ed as 3.066GHZ P4 "532"....but frequency is often registered as 4.5+Ghz.....multipliers are 14x/23x for this CPU. The FSB is read as 133mhz for the CPU .
 
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My theory is that this thread of notification is a victim of "static race condition" where the parallel threads outcome is combined....I'm guessing due to a Hyperthreaded CPU that's works and the stepping/revision is supported. But this was one of the first CPU that WERE Hyperthreaded and the BIOS may support the family, but not deal well with HTT. Everything else is kosher, though.....not gonna worry about it.
 
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Well, it does come & go....the old motherboard dealing with the wide-cast BIOS spanning different CPUs and the same board....I'd like to thank you for you expert analysis and years of progressive experience with the hardware /software aspect of 2004 and up technology. You're just so gosh darned wonderful to have as a resource and reference! Thank you!
 
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