I think that the laptop's performance has indeed improved.
The x86info CPU speed estimate has gone up, mplayer seems to play a bit smoother, and kernel compilation time has improved.
Lior
Rony Shapiro wrote:
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
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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The problem was an out-of-date BIOS version.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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