AMD64 Woes

[David O'Brien]

First, don't top post.  This is a UNIX mailing list, not an MS-Windows
one.  Next time I won't reply in this format.


On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 06:03:51AM -0700, Remi wrote:
> That's exactly the problem. The BIOS won't let me. And the AC line is
> plugged in. Windows XP Pro detects it correctly, there's something something
> else going on with BSD.
...
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 19:46:22 -0700, Remi <mrl0l at charter.net> wrote:
> > I just got a new AMD64 laptop(I8254) and it appears to be running at
> 800MHz
> > on 5.2.1-R
> > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ (800.03-MHz K8-class CPU)

Athlon64 moble processors start up in their lowest speed -- the PowerNow!
driver is responsible for speeding up the processor.  Not this is opposite
from that past and was done because some laptop manufactors wanted to be
able to drive an Athlon64 with cheaper temperature and power
requirements.  Such that a laptop could overheat and fry itself if run at
full speed for long periods of time.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)