Amd 64 3700+....suse Only Sees It As 1ghz

First off, let me say thanks in advance. I just installed 10.2. I had been hearing really good things and decided to give it a whirl. I had SuSE way back about 4 years ago and wasn't too impressed but this time...WOW. Loving it so far. However, I noticed something after installing a system monitor from superkaramba. My CPU was only showing 1GHz. I thought maybe it was a bug and looked in the hardware profile, and, sure enough, it's showing only 1GHz. The problem is I have an AMD Athlon 64 3700+(which is correctly identifies in the profile and everywhere else I look) 2.4GHz. I haven't seen this before with any other distro. So, two questions: 1) Does that mean that my processor is actually only running at 1GHz instead of running at the full 2.4GHz? 2) How do I fix it? Thanks, again, in advance!

in terminal
type: cat /proc/cpuinfo

mine is this:


processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 67
model name : AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2613.401
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm cr8legacy ts fid vid ttp tm stc
bogomips : 5229.93

processor : 1
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 67
model name : AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2613.401
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm cr8legacy ts fid vid ttp tm stc
bogomips : 5227.13

First off, let me say thanks in advance. I just installed 10.2. I had been hearing really good things and decided to give it a whirl. I had SuSE way back about 4 years ago and wasn't too impressed but this time...WOW. Loving it so far. However, I noticed something after installing a system monitor from superkaramba. My CPU was only showing 1GHz. I thought maybe it was a bug and looked in the hardware profile, and, sure enough, it's showing only 1GHz. The problem is I have an AMD Athlon 64 3700+(which is correctly identifies in the profile and everywhere else I look) 2.4GHz. I haven't seen this before with any other distro. So, two questions: 1) Does that mean that my processor is actually only running at 1GHz instead of running at the full 2.4GHz? 2) How do I fix it? Thanks, again, in advance!
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Do you have powersave installed, turned on and setup?

I had the same thing some time ago. My problem was that the bios did not meet spec.
The 1st thing to do is check for a BIOS update for the motherboard; then the problem may go away.

If that does not fix it, then, you may have a problem with the DSDT (a table in the BIOS that feeds SuSE device info & where it goes at boot); see: http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showto...893&hl=dsdt
If you have to fix the DSDT, read through the whole post 1st & take notes; it's not tough...

And, if it is a DSDT problem, this is not a SuSE problem. SuSE expects the BIOS to meet spec not some garbage kluged together with a MS compiler.

Hope this helps.

Do you have powersave installed, turned on and setup?

I had the same thing some time ago. My problem was that the bios did not meet spec.
The 1st thing to do is check for a BIOS update for the motherboard; then the problem may go away.
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I think Snakedriver hit the nail on the head. I've also seen this happen before.

I had the same prob with a AMD 3200+64 bit , showed 1000 mhz. Turned off the ,"Cool and quiet", in the Bios, now shows 2200 mhz. Many thanks.