Unknown CPU type

AndrewJ wrote:


Well, it 'might' be a mobile but it's by no means 'for sure' as a 266 MHz
FSB XP 2400+ is a perfectly normal processor.


Of the dozen some Barton's I'm running, only three are not
auto-detected. Those are the three that are Mobiles. That is on three
different brands and two basic mobo types. Asus, Biostar, Chaintech.
With VIA and NF2.

Of course it's problematic for a desktop to detect a 'mobile' as they
weren't designed to.

That doesn't mean, however, that all undetected processors on any
motherboard of any age are, of necessity, mobiles too. Any processor
type/speed, not just a 'mobile', introduced after the BIOS was written
might be 'unknown' to it and he has an old motherboard.

Btw, a 266MHz FSB XP2400+ isn't a Barton.



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