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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: CPU misdetection and, (probably unrelated) IDE data corruption
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 02:52:22PM +0000, John Bradford wrote:

 > * Misdetection of an Athlon 1700XP as a Duron
 > model name      : AMD Duron(tm) Processor

This string is set by the BIOS at power-on time.
If it really is an Athlon, your BIOS is horked.
Try upgrading it.

Out of curiosity, what does x86info[1] make of it ?

		Dave

[1] See http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/cvs/ for a snapshot.

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