Good morning, and the plot thickens.
This morning, and according to both Belarc and My Computer/properties.............I now have an AMD Athlon XP2400 2.00 GHz.
Rizla, I tried and failed to see the BIOS screen, either I am not quick enough or was doing something wrong, but could not open it. Will try again later when Colin, the local PC builder, comes round to have a look.
Thanks for the link, will get Col to put in a new cmos battery, see what that does. The date and time and constant and correct but that link does suggest that a dying battery may have the effect I am seeing.
Just to cheer up the day, wee screenie attached with todays properties.
This is getting exciting, tomorrow it might tell me that I have some super fast quad core thing !!
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