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Dell Laptop Showing Wrong Processor - 10/16/2008 8:50:24 PM

mstoten

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Hi,

I have a few of the new Dell E6500 Laptops which are a Core 2 Processor, checked the BIOS to confirm. For some reason it is showing as a Intel Pentium III Xeon processor in SMS. Has anyone come accross this before?

Thanks,

Michael

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RE: Dell Laptop Showing Wrong Processor - 10/17/2008 4:17:30 AM

slecluyse

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Same thing here, WMI reports "Intel Pentium III Xeon" when querying Win32_Processor.Name on a Dell E5400 running XPSP3.

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RE: Dell Laptop Showing Wrong Processor - 10/17/2008 10:01:11 AM

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As slecluyse mentions, SMS pulls that data out of WMI on the machine. I found a fairly decent description of Pentium III Xeon here. It sounds like there were two different cores for that name.

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RE: Dell Laptop Showing Wrong Processor - 10/19/2008 7:06:33 PM

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The PIII Xeon was introduced in 1999, so why would it be showing as the processor on a new 2008 model laptop?

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RE: Dell Laptop Showing Wrong Processor - 10/19/2008 7:35:51 PM

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I don't have any Dell E6500 to look at; your best bet is to contact Dell and see what their explanation is.

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