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x60s - can't use 64 bits

Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:40 am
by meutel
Hello,
I can no longer boot any 64 bits OS on my x60s. I tried BSD (NetBSD 5 and FreeBSD 8 ) and Linux (debian 5) distributions but it seems the CPU is detected as 686 instead of x86-64.
On debian x86 lshw command outputs:

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  *-cpu:0
       description: CPU
       product: Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU      L2400  @ 1.66GHz
       vendor: Intel Corp.
       physical id: 6
       bus info: cpu@0
       version: 6.14.12
       serial: 0000-06EC-0000-0000-0000-0000
       slot: None
       size: 1333MHz
       capacity: 1667MHz
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 167MHz
       capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon bts pni monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr cpufreq
       configuration: id=0
     *-logicalcpu:0
          description: Logical CPU
          physical id: 0.1
          width: 32 bits
          capabilities: logical
     *-logicalcpu:1
          description: Logical CPU
          physical id: 0.2
          width: 32 bits
          capabilities: logical
  *-cpu:1
       physical id: 1
       bus info: cpu@1
       version: 6.14.12
       serial: 0000-06EC-0000-0000-0000-0000
       size: 1333MHz
       capacity: 1333MHz
       capabilities: vmx ht cpufreq
       configuration: id=0
     *-logicalcpu:0
          description: Logical CPU
          physical id: 0.1
          capabilities: logical
     *-logicalcpu:1
          description: Logical CPU
          physical id: 0.2
          capabilities: logical

Is there BIOS settings or anything that could explain this bad CPU detection?

Re: x60s - can't use 64 bits

Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:30 am
by ZaZ
How did you do it before since the L2400 is not a 64 bit CPU?

Re: x60s - can't use 64 bits

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:07 pm
by ThinkRob
FredGarvin is correct: you don't have a 64-bit CPU.

The OSs are correct: 64-bit addressing isn't supported on your machine.

Re: x60s - can't use 64 bits

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:50 pm
by meutel
oops, I mistook with another computer (with a T9600 CPU).

Thanks