From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 12 19:18:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA05994 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 19:18:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA05642 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 19:18:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-213.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.213]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA30479 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 21:17:57 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA02572 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 21:04:40 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199803130304.VAA02572@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: CPU calibration problems In-reply-to: Message from Studded of "Thu, 12 Mar 1998 01:25:27 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 21:04:40 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Studded writes: > For some time now I've had problems with the calibration of my CPU > speed during boot. I have a Dell XPS P90 machine, and I currently have a > '586 Pentium Overdrive chip in it which normally clocks out to 150.34. > However, here's some examples of incorrect values: > > CPU: Pentium (109.75-MHz 586-class CPU) > CPU: Pentium (118.77-MHz 586-class CPU) I have one P90 that also boots with squirelly CPU speeds reported. Never seen it as wildly off as yours. OTOH, I haven't booted it as many times as you've documented. :-) Last time booted it was approximately correct. Has been running several months now. Just what is the real problem if this value is reported wrong? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message