Letter to a friend

This is a true account of what happened tonight. I am the "first person" below.

No, it's not what u r thinking ;) !

But it was interesting, nevertheless. I watched Malcolm In The Middle till 
12:30, got down to study SP, couldn't understand much, so started reading 
Potter. Finished it off by 3:00. Then started playing Quake III, however, the 
CPU started beeping due to overheating (faulty fan, remember?). Got so 
irritated that I ripped the old CPU off and tried to put it in that old 
cartridge CPU that my friend had lent me. It fit in ... But the PC wouldn't 
start !!

Just below the slot, as I later saw, were some jumper configurations that told 
the motherboard which CPU to use. Kind of let me down, I thought the MoBo 
would figure it out by itself! Anyway, after searching a **LOT** among those 
tiny wires, I found the jumpers (1 and 11) and set them accordingly. Voila!! 
You are getting this mail courtesy the cartridge CPU.

One disappointment though. Read this cat /proc/cpuinfo -

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 7
model name      : Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 501.277
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat 
pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 989.18


Notice the clock speed? It's just 501 Mhz, instead of the promised 550. 
Anyway, I can play as much Quake as I want to now ... three cheers to that !


-- 
Sandy (http://sandesh247.blogspot.com)

"Roman Polanski makes his own blood.  He's smart -- that's why his movies 
work."
-- A brilliant director at "Frank's Place"

It is 4:15 a.m. right now. Time to study some SP, then off to sleep ...