On Mon, 22 Mai 2000, you wrote:
>Celerons have a locked or fixed multiplier, and if you change the
>multipliers in the bios to something else, the system will generally boot at
>half speed... are you saying something is telling you your CPU is running
>at a speed it can't be?
According to your sayings (in corcondance with those of other
computer experts - I�m surely not one of them ;-) Changing the
multiplier should _NOT_ affect the CPU speed. But in my case it
DOES!!! By the way the multiplier isn�t set in the BIOS but is
jumpered on the MoBo, just like the system bus speed.
So when choosing another jumper setting on the MOTHERBOARD for the
multiplier, the BIOS shows another CPU speed. And this CPU speed is
also shown by the Linux kernel.
Is this Normal?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Sangohn Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Linux Config Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, 22 May 2000 00:29
>Subject: CPU Speed: from Kernel or from BIOS
>
>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I was told Celeron CPU don�t take care of the multiplier factor set
>> on the MoBo for their clock rate. But in my case this not true.
>> Could be the CPU clock speed shown in/by the BIOS is _ONLY_ the
>> result of BUS speed multiplied with the multiplier factor AND the
>> CPU really runs with the same speed even if I vary the multiplier
>> and/or the bus speed?
>> Now I�d like to know if the value given from �cat /proc/cpuinfo� is
>> determined at boot time by te kernel or only read from the BIOS
>> setting.
>>
>> TIA
>>
