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Melissa Porter
My system is a Dell Dimension 4600, with BIOS at the highest available
level.
It's my understanding that a Prescott processor with a revision level of
less than 8 will not work with XP SP2.
I ran Intel's Processor Frequency ID Utility and received the info below,
which didn't really answer the question since the rev level is shown as a
letter and not a number. I've been told that "C" is hex code. I've tried to
find verification of this on Intel, Microsoft, and Dell websites with no
luck. Email queries resulted in a non-answer from MS and no responses at all
from Dell or Intel.
Can someone here please tell me whether or not I can safely install SP2 on
this system? Thanks.
Time Stamp: 2004/10/28 00:37:24
Number of processors in system: 1
Current processor: #1
Processor Name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80A GHz
Type: 0
Family: F
Model: 3
Stepping: 4
Revision: C
L1 Trace Cache: 12 Kµops
L1 Data Cache: 16 KB
L2 Cache: 1 MB
Packaging: FC-PGA2
Platform Compatibility Guide: 04A
MMX(TM): Yes
SIMD: Yes
SIMD2: Yes
SIMD3: Yes
NetBurst(TM) Microarchitecture: Yes
Expected Processor Frequency: 2.80 GHz
Reported Processor Frequency: 2.80 GHz
Expected System Bus Frequency: 533 MHz
Reported System Bus Frequency: 533 MHz
level.
It's my understanding that a Prescott processor with a revision level of
less than 8 will not work with XP SP2.
I ran Intel's Processor Frequency ID Utility and received the info below,
which didn't really answer the question since the rev level is shown as a
letter and not a number. I've been told that "C" is hex code. I've tried to
find verification of this on Intel, Microsoft, and Dell websites with no
luck. Email queries resulted in a non-answer from MS and no responses at all
from Dell or Intel.
Can someone here please tell me whether or not I can safely install SP2 on
this system? Thanks.
Time Stamp: 2004/10/28 00:37:24
Number of processors in system: 1
Current processor: #1
Processor Name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80A GHz
Type: 0
Family: F
Model: 3
Stepping: 4
Revision: C
L1 Trace Cache: 12 Kµops
L1 Data Cache: 16 KB
L2 Cache: 1 MB
Packaging: FC-PGA2
Platform Compatibility Guide: 04A
MMX(TM): Yes
SIMD: Yes
SIMD2: Yes
SIMD3: Yes
NetBurst(TM) Microarchitecture: Yes
Expected Processor Frequency: 2.80 GHz
Reported Processor Frequency: 2.80 GHz
Expected System Bus Frequency: 533 MHz
Reported System Bus Frequency: 533 MHz