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I just upgraded the CPU in my file server. This is the one I pulled out. Looks like I wasn’t runnning it at full speed. I blew a motherboard a few months back and had to buy a new one. Since i assumed that the motherboard would run the CPU at the correct speed I left it set at a FSB of 100. Which gave me a speed of 1Ghz. I could have been running it at FSB 133 which would have given me its proper speed of 1.4 Ghz.


So after looking up the info on the CPU I got the following 27016 is an athalon thunderbird
A=Athlon desktop power consumption
1400= 1400 Mhz speed
A= PGA/CPGA M = 1.75 core voltage
S = 95’C die temperature
3 = 256 k L2 cache
C = FsB of 266 (x2 multiplier)
Board speed is 133 Mhz (x2)
AYHJA = athalon Padmino Core ??
01 = 2001
36 = week 36

I should have taken a photo of the new chip but that didn’t occur to me till after putting it in the socket, themeral compound and the heat sink.

From New egg it should be a

AMD Sempron 2800+
Model SDA2800DUT3D
Frequency = 2000Mhz
Core=Thoroughbred
FSB = 333 Mhz (2x)
Board Speed 166Mhz (x2)
L1 Cache 64KB+64KB
L2 Cache 256kB
Processor Type = 130 nm
Voltage 1.6

Looks like my psion 5 is on its last legs. It keeps rebooting. I am guessing a ribbon cable or a short somewhere. I took it apart and there are two plasic lugs that the hinges for the screen connect are broken as well.

So does anyone have one sitting in a cupboard somewhere that they are not using and would be interested in parting with? 9 Years isn’t bad for a piece of electronics.

I was having a discussion with a coworker about the age of programmers/it geeks. To me it seems that there is a generation geek that were born say 1970-1985 that grew up with computers that you had to work to use. As I go to conferences and places like defcon I tend to see the same people only each year they are getting older. I don’t think there is as many younger people getting in to the security space. After reading this https://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/28/2236239&from=rss I am wondering how many people will be interested enough in programming to choose it as a career.

I think I have solved my disappearing mail problem. Seems I was pointing to an backup mail server that was responding mailbox not found when an email tried to deliver email to it.