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does XP home misjudge processor speed?

My roommate just bought a Compaq Presario SR1710NX from some guy on craigslist. It came pre-loaded with XP Home. The ad specifies that it's a 2ghz box with 256m of RAM. However, when I took a look at the "My Computer" properties, it said the box was running at 994mhz with 224 megs of RAM.

Is this an artifact of XP Home, or should I tell him to go and kick the seller's ass?

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Try checking the CPU with CPU-Z: http://www.cpuid.org/cpuz.php

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the misjudgment of your memory is most likey due to onboard video memory sharing.

the processor, however, with new amd processors on older motherboards the bios needs to be updated. I had this problem with an amd 64 that was showing 1.2 ghz, after I updated the bios is correctly showed 2.0 ghz.

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Horizon, shut the fuck up.

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fuck you aj, what the fuck do you know anyway

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Advice given by someone who cant even work Windows properly.... ever get that background back dumbass?

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If there is onboard video, it will show less memory (at least, win2k certainly does). No idea about the processor speed thing, though.

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Advice given by someone who cant even work Windows properly.... ever get that background back dumbass?


yeah, it was an issue that was resolved with a re-ghost

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which means, you fucked the registry.

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