Thanks for the update. I'm curious - did the laptop's performance
improve as well, or was this just an issue of displaying information
incorrectly?
Rony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lior Okman
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 19:24
> To: Linux-il Mailing List
> Subject: Re: CPU Frequency - Solved
>
>
>
> The problem was an out-of-date BIOS version.
>
> The laptop came with BIOS version kh.f 15 "preloaded", and
> this version
> did not support the 2.6 GHz cpu. After a "pleasant" conversation with
> HP's support personal, in which they tried to convince me that the
> problem was that I am running an "unsupported operating system" on my
> laptop, they mentioned that I should try upgrading the BIOS to the
> latest version.
>
> Upgrading the BIOS did the trick:
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 15
> model : 2
> model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
> stepping : 9
> cpu MHz : 2660.101 <-----------------
> cache size : 512 KB
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 2
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca
> cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid
> bogomips : 5193.72
>
>
> Thanks to all who helped...
>
> Lior
>
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