First post, by EvieSigma
I have a computer with a MSI KM2M Combo-L motherboard in it and I decided to upgrade the original 1.3GHz Duron to an Athlon XP 2400+ I had laying around. I was pleasantly surprised that the computer booted first try after installing the CPU, but something was wrong. In both the BIOS and in Windows (via CPU-Z and HWINFO32) the CPU is identified instead as an Athlon XP 1800+, but it's...clearly not, as it has "2400" as part of the model string on the chip itself. What's going on here? The only thing I can think of is some kind of BIOS/chipset weirdness.