Athlon X2? - Bios upgrade it was

Barry Boes barry.boes at annowa.com
Wed Nov 9 20:53:00 PST 2005


Thanks guys, it was indeed the BIOS.  I wasn't aware that it did so
much for us!


Steve Kargl writes:
 > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:13:00PM -0600, Barry Boes wrote:
 > > 
 > > Hello, I have an Athlon 3800+ X2 on an Abit AV8 mainboard and am
 > > having trouble seeing the second CPU.  I'm new to AMD64, so please
 > > bear with me... 
 > 
 > Do you need a BIOS upgrade?
 > 
 > > kernel: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov  9 15:56:22 UTC 2005
 > > kernel: root@:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/bravo
 > > kernel: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
 > > kernel: CPU: AMD Hammer Family  - Model Unknown (2004.56-MHz K8-class CPU)
 > > kernel: Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x20fb1  Stepping = 1
 > > kernel: Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,\
 > >  MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
 > > kernel: Features2=0x1<SSE3>   
 > > kernel: AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,<b25>,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
 > > kernel: real memory  = 536805376 (511 MB)
 > > kernel: avail memory = 506327040 (482 MB)
 > > kernel: ACPI APIC Table: <VIAK8T AWRDACPI>
 > 
 > Is this from the SMP kernel?
 > 
 > -- 
 > Steve
 > 
 > 



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