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pentium running slow

From: willjay@excite.com (Will Jay)
Subject: Re: hw reports pentium running slow
Date: 5 Nov 2002 13:30:53 -0800
References: <d45d8f4d.0211041328.36406eb@posting.google.com>
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"Stuart J. Browne" <stuart@promed.com.au> wrote in message news:<aq6roj$9q8$1@perki.connect.com.au>...
> "Will Jay" <willjay@excite.com> wrote in message
> news:d45d8f4d.0211041328.36406eb@posting.google.com...
> > hw returns that my Pentium 4 1.6 GIGHZ is running a 256 HZ.
> >
> > What's this all about.  Thanks Willjay.
> 
> Give us a hand here please..  Run:
> 
>     customquery listpatches | head -1
> 
> Send us the results.
> 
> My best guess however is that you're using OSR 5.0.6 without the OSS648a
> supplement.  If not, then the above should help us a bit further.
> 
> bkx

I fixed this problem, by applying the oss648a, however my first
attempts caused a panic at boot. So I uninstalled it.  Later I
re-installed it and reset my bios back to default, because I had a
slight overclocking, maybe this was causing the panic. Anyway it's
fixed.

FYI:

oss648a will warn you that it cannot install the parts that are
required for smp unless smp is installed. oss648a will also do a
verify by doing a quick checksum and size check on a few files, one of
which is x286emul and if it does not verify it will warn you.  Mine
did not verify as I use a modified x286emul.

I'm not sure why oss648a verifys the x286emul files. May be someone
else can answer that.

Anyway the panic did not reoccur and hw reports:
There is one CPU on this system.               
                                               
The CPU performs like a 1600Mhz Intel Pentium 4

And by the way,  after resetting the overclock and bios back to
default, and before applying the oss648a patch I checked hw and it
reported that the CPU performed like a 200Mhz.  And it performed like
one too, very slow.

Now this machine screams. I am very happy.

Thanks all for the help
WillJay
 

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