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More info?)
All I know is that my LS was a P3-400. Beyond that.....
"Sam" <shk21@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1125799381.871397.131700@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> When I do a search on the invoice using service tag, it came up with a
> message saying that it did not have that information in the system.
> When I let Dell search confirguration on my curent system, It came up
> as Celeron 400.
>
>>From the report utility, I research on the "Coppermine-128" and found
> that it is a new version of Celeron? (Celeron II) and it's basically
> the same as P3 (Coppermine) except it has half the L2 cache so I am
> thinking since the bios in this laptop is old and not recognise this
> Celeron II, it reported it as P3 400 (since Celeron II is same
> architecture as P3)? Well, that's my theory.
>
> But then, it means Dell has been selling Celeron II 400 CPU as P3 400
> on these Latitude LSt. That seems very hard to believe.
>
>
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> Tom Scales wrote:
>> What does the original invoice say? As I said, I don't believe it was
>> available with a Celeron
>> "Sam" <shk21@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1125795652.800343.151150@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>> > thanks for that. I just downloaded and ran the utility, unfortunately
>> > it is reporting as Celeron just like other cpu utilities. Here are some
>> > summary of the report.
>> >
>> > CPU Type : Mobile Intel Celeron, 400Hz (4 x 100)
>> > CPU Alias : Coppermine-128
>> > Instruction Set : x86, MMX, SSE
>> > Original Clock : 400MHz
>> > L1 Code Cache : 16KB
>> > L1 Data Cache : 16KB
>> > L2 Cache : 128KB (ON-Die,ATC, Full-Speed)
>> >
>> > Any ideas? IT seems that bios is the only place reporting it as P3 400
>> > and all other utilities are showing up as Celeron.
>> >
>> >
>> > NoNoBadDog! wrote:
>> >> "Sam" <shk21@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:1125789218.714761.240890@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> >> > Hi I recently bought a Dell Latitude LSt laptop with Pentium 3 400
>> >> > processor. When I boot up on bios, it reports it as P3 400 but when
>> >> > I
>> >> > use cpu check utilities such as Intel Processor Utility or CPUINFO,
>> >> > it
>> >> > reports it as Celeron 400. Also it shows L2 cache of 128kb which is
>> >> > for
>> >> > Celeron as P3 cpu should have more than that )256kb or 512kb?).
>> >> > Also,
>> >> > when I let Dell examine my system online using service tag, it also
>> >> > reports it as Celeron 400 processor. Any ideas on what CPU I have in
>> >> > the system? could the bios showing incorrect cpu?
>> >> >
>> >> > thanks in advance.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Download Everest Home Edition (free). It will give you all the
>> >> information
>> >> about your system you'll ever need.
>> >>
>> >> Here is the link:
>> >>
http://www.lavalys.hu/products/overview.php?pid=1&lang=en
>> >>
>> >> Bobby
>> >
>