Re: SP3 bug

Update... After a reboot, it is now showing the proper speed.

I right clicked on "my computer" and select properties and that is where the MHz information is.

I removed the 4GB hard drive about a year ago and replaced it with a 40 GB drive.
It has 64 + 128 MBytes of memory (192 MB total)
Boot time is not too long. I usually hibernate so resuming is quick, especially when it only has to read back 192 MBytes.

When I want to be productive I use my 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 with 2GBytes of memory. I sometimes remote into the laptop so I can get a nice 1600 by 1200 screen to work with.
I wouldn't really want to roll back to SP2 just to see if it reads the proper Mhz of the cpu. But I could do.

A couple of weeks ago my brother just updated from a Pentium II 233 MHz desktop computer to a Pentium Dual core 2 GHz, and 4 GBytes of ram. ( I built the system for him). Still waiting to upgrade the graphics (running a radeon 7000 pci (not pci express)) when the ATI Radeon HD 3870 shows up at the local store. Future shop web sites says later today.

"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23hg7eyLPIHA.5988@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Gary Mount wrote:
I installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 on my old Sony Vaio laptop
and XP is reporting the cpu as only 75 MHz.
its a 300 MHz cpu and a utility called CPU-Z correctly shows it as
running at almost 300 MHz.
Before the Service Pack upgrade, Windows would show the correct
speed. Computer | Properties | General tap shows the cpu speed.
I even used Help, about , system information in OneNote 2007 and it
shows the speed as 75 Mhz as well.
Pentium II processor by the way.

If you roll back to the actually released SP2 - does the processor speed in System Properties (is that where you are seeing this - or in msinfo32?) show correctly?

I have to say - I have ran Windows XP on some (what I considered) minimal systems before - it was painful at best. You say this thing has a 300MHz CPU and is a Pentium II - I have to ask - when did you replace the hard disk drive witrh something that allowed you to run Windows XP fully patched and obviously some part of Office 2007 and still have some space left over? How much memory does this machine have? How long does it take to boot and load - anything? Having experienced 400MHz PCs with 1GB memory and 8GB hard disk drives - I cannot imagine it being the most productive machine on the planet. ;-)

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