CPU not recognized, any way to fix it?

[Fenixgoon]

I just bought an AMD sempron 2300+ socket A, installed it and it works. However, my computer recognizes it as some form of an Athlon XP rather than a sempron. motherboard is an AOpen AK75 with latest bios. It works, but i want it to say "sempron"!:|

 

[Matthias99]

The new Semprons *are* AthlonXPs, but with part of the cache disabled (I think).

A new BIOS might fix your motherboard so it displays it "correctly". However, this is absolutely irrelevant in terms of anything else. So don't worry about it.

Edit: I didn't see that you already had the latest BIOS. Really, it doesn't matter in the least.

 

[Budman]

it's doesnt matter,it will not inder the chip's performance in any way.

Like Matthias99 said the new sempron are basicaly Tbreds so the Aopen board is actualy right. 😉

 

[jonnyGURU]

Originally posted by: Matthias99
The new Semprons *are* AthlonXPs, but with part of the cache disabled (I think).

Thought wrong. 😉

A Sempron IS an Athlon XP. Period.

They changed the name because they want the focus of the Athlon brand to be on the 64-bit processors. AMD felt the differentiation between the 32-bit XP version and the 64-pin versions were too much for the stupid, average consumer to digest.