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       : 0vendor_id       : GenuineIntelcpu family      : 6model           : 7model name      : Pentium III (Katmai)stepping        : 3cpu MHz         : 501.277cache size      : 512 KBfdiv_bug        : nohlt_bug         : nof00f_bug        : nocoma_bug        : nofpu             : yesfpu_exception   : yescpuid level     : 2wp              : yesflags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr ssebogomips        : 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 …