Re: Pentium II looks like a Xeon?

CaT (cat@zip.com.au)
Tue, 4 May 1999 13:34:01 +1000 (EST)

Steve Willer wrote the following:
>
>
> I'm trying to figure out some strange behavior on a new dual Pentium II
> Xeon 450. This is stock kernel 2.2.7. Linux seems to think that I'm
> running a Celeron with no cache whatsoever.
>
> Has anyone heard of this kind of mistaken identity? The /proc/cpuinfo info
> for one of the processors is below.

I've had this with a normnal PII (SP). It was mostly vixed by bios upgrades.

Check to see what the bios thinks the CPU is on bootup. Mine used to think
I had no L2 and now, occasionally, thinks I have a 175MHz PII... Hasn't
happened for ages though.

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