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| Thread ID: 59568 | 2005-07-06 05:54:00 | CPU type not displayed in the General Tab of SYSTEM | chiefnz (545) | Press F1 |
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| 369858 | 2005-07-06 05:54:00 | Of late I have noticed that when I open System in the Control Panel Windows XP Home does not display my CPU type under the Generalat all, all that is displayed now is the amount of RAM I have. I thought maybe it was because I have SP2 installed but I had a look at my Compaq laptop (which aslo has SP2 installed) and it displays the CPU type as well as the amount of RAM in the General Tab. How do I get it to display my CPU type and more importantly why did this information disappear? I know it seems a trivial matter but as far as I'm concerned if it's not normal then something's wrong. cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 369859 | 2005-07-06 08:39:00 | CPU description does not appear correctly in the System Properties dialog box support.microsoft.com hth |
johnboy (217) | ||
| 369860 | 2005-07-07 04:28:00 | Click start --> run Now, type: dxdiag Enjoy :) Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 369861 | 2005-07-07 05:47:00 | It means that Microsoft XP has destroyed the CPU, and now there's just a little pile of silicon dust loosely glued to the heatsink. There's just enough intelligence in the video card and the keyboard controller to hand over all your processing to a CPU at Microsoft headquarters. They are determined to keep track of what you download. :D :cool: |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 369862 | 2005-07-07 06:01:00 | So is there a fix for this or is it one of those problems we all assume MS doesn't give a RAT's ASS about... wait hang on that's right MS doesn't give a RAT'S ASS about anything. cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 369863 | 2005-07-07 06:10:00 | They know it's wrong. ;) Just be glad they haven't fixed it. Fix: Give it a bigger string space. Programmer thinks: "No one would or could ever give it a string longer than that (after all, the thing was failing because the string was too long) , so we don't need to check for overflow". Result: Critical security update required. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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