CPU-Z not recognize new core.... (NEW PROBLEM!)

BUrassler

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NEW PROBLEM: Need help, a few posts down...

I just replaced a s754 3000+ Newcastle with a s754 3000+ Venice. CPU-Z used say right on its display that it was a newcastle, but it is not reading off the new core as a venice. Is this a problem? What can I do about it?

Here is an image of CPU-Z


Thanks,
-Greg

 

BUrassler

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Yea, but now Prime95 wont run, and I think the chamge, with things like SSE3 are screwing with it. I may have to either repair install or reformat.... I am not happy! Anyone have any ideas?
 

nomagic

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hahahaha,

Why dont you also download the new version of Prime95.

That shoulda work
 

BUrassler

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I got prime95 to run now after a repair install, but I dont know if the CPU instructions are being fully utalized. How can I check if SSE3 and any other new instructions are working?
 

glugglug

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After installing AMD's CPU drivers, make sure you have the /USEPMTIMER flag specified in your BOOT.INI.

Meaning it should look something like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Media Center Edition" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTOUT /USEPMTIMER

Otherwise, the drivers change how the windows API calls QueryPerformanceCounter and QueryPerformanceFrequency work, which breaks most video recording applications and some other multimedia stuff as well.

/USEPMTIMER makes those APIs revert to the normal way.