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More info?)
To clarify: I bought an OEM 3200 and originally it was read as an Athlon XP
3200 on both my original A7N8X Deluxe my A7N8X-E Deluxe. When I updated the
A7N8X-E Deluxe BIOS to 1012-e the processor is coming up as a Sempron
2200mhz in the bios. I have the processor speed at 200 and the multiplier is
at 11 in the bios as it was before the BIOS upgrade. I ran Crystal CPUID and
it is saying I have an Athlon XP Barton but the name string is AMD Sempron.
The mhz is right for a 3200, the L2 cache is 512k as it should be as well.
The Family is 6 and the generation is 7 and the model is A. I don't know if
I really have a 3200XP or if I have a 2500 or even a Sempron. I just want to
make sure I didn't get ripped off by the vendor. Any help figuring this out
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Eric
"Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message
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> In article <vyI5d.17174$Wa7.11701@trndny06>, "Eric Feinstein"
> <erc1@nospamdisney.com> wrote:
>
>> As soon as I upgraded my bios on my A7N8X-E Deluxe to the 1012-E bios it
>> started saying I have a sempron 2200mhz in the bios. Yet when I use
>> sisoft
>> to check the CPU it does show a 512k L2 cache so I know it's not
>> sempron.
>> Is this a known issue with the new bios?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
>
> Have you used any Windows utilities to check what kind of
> processor you've got. As far as I know, the only part of
> an Athlon you cannot counterfeit, is the model number
> (model 10 = Barton, model 8 = Tbred/Sempron and so on).
>
> Anything controlled by bridges can be modified by a remarker.
> We've had two posters here with counterfeit 3200+ processors,
> so it is something to watch for. For info on bridges, this
> page is the best reference I've got:
>
>
http://fab51.com/cpu/barton/athlon-e23.html
>
> This one has some info on the new Semprons.
>
>
http://fab51.com/cpu/sempron/s10.html
>
> The Sempron is model 8. Pretty hard to confuse it with a
> Barton model 10 ? How could the BIOS make such a mistake ?
>
> I would want to look over the bridges on that chip pretty
> carefully. One poster had access to a microscope and actually
> found conductive paint mods on the bottom side of his processor.
> The conductive paint was covered by another paint that matched
> the color of the organic substrate.
>
> Paul
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