2500 identified as garbage

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Ned

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• Sep 13, 2003

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I've just installed 2500 Barton on an Asus A7V8X and the processor is being identified as:

AuthenticAMD
long-string-of-strange-symbols

Any idea what is going on?

 

xboy

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• Sep 13, 2003

• #2

what are these long-string-of-strange-symbols

 

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Ned

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• Sep 13, 2003

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I can't type them. They are things like euro signs, accented characters and solid blocks.

 

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Gautam

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• Sep 13, 2003

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There have been reports of 2500+'s giving several odd name strings. It shouldn't actually effect anything, other than what it shows up as in programs such as WCPUID.

 

drshivas

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• Sep 13, 2003

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Is the garbage string being reported in the POST, OS and/or WCPUID? Do you have another mobo/cpu you can test with? Have you tried flashing the BIOS? Just suggestions as this is the first time I've heard about this.

 

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• Sep 14, 2003

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Check your CMOS jumper, it may have been placed on wrong. Something similiar happened to my friend recently when he placed the jumper back on wrong.

 

Hedgehogforprez

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• Sep 14, 2003

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Heh and here I thought it was just me. AMD Athlon™ prosussor .... always has been like that, don't know if the guys over at AMD get smacked in the head with bricks regularly to make it a challenge pushing out CPU's or what....but it's kind of wierd.