I have an Duron 1200 CPU, I bought a used ASUS MB for it. After getting it home I found out it was an ASUS board made for HP Pavilions :(. I can't find any bios update for it (I have looked a lot) It Recognizes the CPU and memory properly, It wont see my Secondary slave CD drive but XP does. I get 4X AGP bus, UDMA4,(all correct) the only thing wrong is it is listing the Duron 1200 as an Athlon 1200 in XP System Properties. Would that have any negative affect? The MB M#is A7V-VM Thanks, Brad Brad, Above us only Sky.

Try a program like CPU-Z to see what speed it is running at. If it is running at 1200 MHz then there is nothing to worry about. If it came with a HP computer then you would have to contact HP for a BIOS upgrade. Then they would want to know which HP model it came out of. That is assuming an upgrade is even available. I see 3 different versions of this board: A7V-VM Mocha http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?docname=bph07227&dlc=en&lc=en&cc=uk A7V-VM Montana http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&docname=bph07422 A7V-VM Moorea http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?docname=bph07229&dlc=en&lc=en&cc=uk

Thanks, I found those also, none have BIOS updates. I got the MB by itself and its very hard to cross reference HP M#'s with MB M#'s. I am looking in forums for people that have this model and what model comp. they have. Brad, Above us only Sky.

Also... In the bios it sees it as 1200MHz but as an Athlon instead of Duron. Brad, Above us only Sky.

Duron's may have come out long after that motherboard was made. It cannot know what the chip is, so it guesses the best it knows how. You can avoid many of these Windows problems with Linux. Linspire eases the transition for new users

Duron's may have come out long after that motherboard was made. It cannot know what the chip is, so it guesses the best it knows how. That's what I figured, what I am wondering is that going to affect the way the CPU is utilized/accessed by the MB and rest of system? Brad, Above us only Sky.

No, I think not. You can avoid many of these Windows problems with Linux. Linspire eases the transition for new users