Really strange problem

[Timmah]

I just built a pc for my cousins girlfriend. It's a Biostar KM400 board with a duron 1.6 and 256mb crucial ddr 266. well the install of win xp goes great. accidentally didnt jump it to 266 fsb so it was running at 1.2. i fix the jumper and its now running at 1.6 but now when you goto system properties in xp it says the following

AMD Duron(tm) procu{s[]}

WTH!!! never seen that before. when the mobo is clocked at 100 fsb and the duron at 1.2 it shows up normally, "AMD Duron processor.

i have no idea. i'm testing it with prime95 for stability now. any ideas guys??

 

[HvyMtl]

ok, I assume you get the weird cpu ID when you are booting. It should not be a problem, as long as the system works fine. Now if the system hangs, locks up, doesn't boot properly, etc., you might want to clear the bios.
Also, a bios update may fix the incorrect id. Does it mean you system has a real problem, no, as long as that is the only symptom showing...

 

[Timmah]

Originally posted by HvyMtl
ok, I assume you get the weird cpu ID when you are booting. It should not be a problem, as long as the system works fine. Now if the system hangs, locks up, doesn't boot properly, etc., you might want to clear the bios.
Also, a bios update may fix the incorrect id. Does it mean you system has a real problem, no, as long as that is the only symptom showing...

It shows up in windows. It's been running Prime95 now for 6 hours @ 100% cpu load and no errors yet. I feel it's a "cosmetic" error. I'm going to update the bios. Thanks!!