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Message 46188 - Posted: 2 Nov 2012, 19:33:25 UTC
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Just want to report that one of my cpu's is not recognized by boinc

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Message 46189 - Posted: 2 Nov 2012, 22:06:55 UTC - in response to Message 46188.  

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Message 46190 - Posted: 3 Nov 2012, 2:58:52 UTC - in response to Message 46188.  

Boinc is reporting the same thing as CPU-Z does under the Specification entry.
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Message 46205 - Posted: 5 Nov 2012, 16:42:33 UTC - in response to Message 46188.  

Answer from development:
Rom Walton wrote:
BOINC is just repeating what the processor told it its model name and number is.

CPU-Z shows what the processor reported about itself in the specification field. In effect, the processor doesn't really know what it is. CPU-Z appears to have an internal table that maps the unknown parts with information humans know about.

By chance, is there an update for the motherboards BIOS?

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Message 46207 - Posted: 5 Nov 2012, 21:36:57 UTC - in response to Message 46205.  


By chance, is there an update for the motherboards BIOS?

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Well, this system was built with parts from 3 'thrown away's'.
The MB is an ABIT, last FW from 2008, last three updates have nothing to do with CPU.
The CPU was taken from a Shuttle; but as far as I can remember, this systam also did not report a cpu-type (in win xp).
All in all it was a cheap system ( 0.- €, 2hrs of work), it works, all parts are outdated (DDR2, IDE HD). It's not worth to invest too much effort in fixing this (just if it's a wrong entry in an lookup-table or anything else which could be fixed in minutes).

But anyway, thanks for the effort.

Alexander
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