From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 20:22:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA28623 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 20:22:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fciencias.ens.uabc.mx ([148.231.177.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA28614 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 20:22:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbarbosa@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx) Received: (from mbarbosa@localhost) by fciencias.ens.uabc.mx (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA08899; Tue, 12 May 1998 20:23:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbarbosa) From: "Marco A. Barbosa S." Message-Id: <199805130323.UAA08899@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx> Subject: Re: AMD 486dx 66 MHz upgraded to AMD K5-75 MHz In-Reply-To: from Rick Hamell at "May 12, 98 08:02:43 pm" To: hamellr@qcsn.com (Rick Hamell) Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 20:23:38 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > hello, its me again... > > I have a problem, last weekend... > > I finally could get enough money to upgrade my puter at home... > > not much, but its a start... anyway... I get a strange reading > > from the kernel at boot time... when I start the puter, the > > bios thing tells me its an AMD K5 75 blah blah... with all > > the memory, the cd-rom, the drives, etc... and FreeBSD 2.1.6 > > tells me its a > > CPU: Pentium Class 38 MHz, and some times, it says 39 MHz... > > > > hmm is there something I dont know about the 2.1.6 release > > that I should have known before upgrading my machine? > > > > thanks for any hints... > > No... just a thing with the AMD K5 series chips. Amd kinda lied > about how fast the chip really was. The 75 there refers to the equivilant > Intel mhz that chip is equal to. > > > > Rick :~( -- ************************************* * Marco Antonio Barbosa Santoyo * * Facultad de Ciencias, U.A.B.C. * * Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico * ************************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message