How could I ended up with different processor in my new laptop?
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May 10th, 2010
It’s been a week since I bought my new laptop and I just recently install the ‘Drive Detective’. The problem is that when I checked up its processor in Drive Detective it said something like this:
System Information
Machine information: Dell Inspiron 1440
Operating system: Windows XP Professional
Physical memory: 2.00 GB
Processor model: Intel Pentium III Xeon Processor (2x)
Motherboard model: Dell inc. -0K138P.
This is of course different from what I previously checked on ‘dxdiag’. It said that:
Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU T6500 @ 2.10GHz (2 CPUs)
Well I’m not a computer person but it really freaks me out when I saw my laptop is a Pentium III type. I’m really confused about this. How could I really know about the Pentium type of my laptop? Please help! Any advice would be appreciated! Thank you!
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This is really weird. My Dad described the same problem to me just yesterday.
My guess is that the “drive detective” program screwed up the detection.
@loser So I’m not the only one here.
@ragingloli Do you suspect the ‘Drive Detective’ is a malicious program?
@La_Perm
not malicious, but all software has bugs, makes mistakes, has errors. This is almost certainly one of those cases where the software is simply wrong.
@ragingloli I guess it could be true. But I still suspect that since I feel the way my laptop works is different from others with the same same type/capacity. My friend suggest me to upgrade the necessary programs in my laptop to the newest state. He said the one who sold you that laptop might put older program to this laptop. So even though it’s a quite new processor it will only work like other PC with older programs.
@La_Perm
You might want to read this about the “driver detective” program. Scroll down to the comment section.
@La_Perm Thank you! So I’m just another victim there. Time to erase this software!
@La_Perm
The point is that this is a piece of software, that, apart from being overpriced, does not do its job of updating drivers correctly, so you can expect screwups with the actual hardware detection as well.
Furthermore, I looked up the Dell Inspiron 1440 and none of them comes with an over 10 year old Pentium 3 Xeon processor, so the software is definitely wrong.
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