The Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboards (for AMD Socket AM2) that I am using with "The OS that Windows was intended to be" have an HPET enable/disable setting, so the feature is not confined to Intel-based systems. These motherboards have nVidia chipsets.
73 Alan NV8A On 11/25/07 09:49 pm Steve Kallal wrote: > I've been looking at dual core motherboards based on Intel chipsets. I > understand only the Intel chipsets support the HPET feature. Does a > motherboard require an HPET setting in the bios to have HPET? I have seen > some dual core motherboards with Intel chipsets that don't have an HPET > enable / disable setting in the bios. > > I don't trust the perf.exe or Performance Counter Query Tool, because it > shows my single core P4 as having the timer. Is there a way to use the tool > to see if a given motherboard supports HPET. _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/

