WCPUID Review Page 2

Here you need to be careful. Type 1 (Via Table Access) worked for my system. Type 2 (Via Function Access) resulted in a "blue screen". On a second system I ran WCPUID on it was just the opposite. After choosing an option the System Information window will open

One of the big questions concerning the Vaio FX210/FX215 laptops has been the motherboard used in the laptop. Notice the Motherboard Information Area. This is the first application that I have used that has said anything about the motherboard in these laptops.

For those of you with Sony Vaio FXA series laptops I would love to know what shows up in the Motherboard Information area. If any FXA owners are reading this please send a screen capture or a text copy of this screen's information to me. While you are at it a copy of the Chipset info would also be great.

-- Copy text Icon. Selecting this icon will copy all of the Text info in any of the WCPUID windows to the clipboard. You can then open Notepad or an other text editor and past the information into it. Below is a sample of the text data pasted into Notepad from the Main WCPUID screen

Processor #1 : Mobile AMD Duron (Model 7) / 4A7732A6
Platform : Socket A (Socket 462)
Vendor String : AuthenticAMD
CPU Type : Original OEM Processor (0)
Family : 6 (7)
Model : 7 (7)
Stepping ID : 0 (0)
Brand : ----
APIC : ----
Name String : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor

Internal Clock : 900.03 MHz
System Bus : 200.01 MHz DDR
System Clock : 100.00 MHz
Multiplier : 9.0

L1 I-Cache : 64K Byte
L1 D-Cache : 64K Byte
L1 T-Cache : ----
L1 Cache : ----
L2 Cache : 64K Byte
L2 Speed : 900.03 MHz (Full)

MMX Unit : Supported
SSE Unit : Supported
SSE2 Unit : Not Supported
MMX2 Unit : Supported
3DNow! Unit : Supported
3DNow!+ Unit : Supported

Host Bridge : 1106:0305.03 [VIA Apollo KT133x]
South Bridge : 1106:0686.22 [VIA VT82C686A]
VGA Device : 1002:4C4D.64 [ATI 3D Rage Family]
Memory Size : 256M Byte
Memory Clock : 100.00 MHz
: 68,2,M:4001,D:2C40,R:0000

OS Version : Windows 2000 Version 5.00.2195 Service Pack 2

I did chop off a bunch of information at the bottom of this text screen that related to various registers in the CPU.

-- The Save Icon. Takes a screen capture of the screen and saves it as a bitmap (.bmp) file. The problem with this is that .bmp files are huge. If you are going to use these .bmp screen captures please convert them to .gif files first.

There is one more feature of WCPUID. There is a realtime cpu speed applet called the Real Time Clock Checker.

If you think the Real Time Clock Checker looks familiar it is probably because you already have H.Oda's WCPUCLK utility. Unfortunately there is no way, that I could figure out, to access the Clock Checker outside of WCPUID. So don't through away your WCPUCLK utility. If you want WCPUCLK here is a download link, WCPUCLK application. H.Oda no longer supports this app as you can see from his download page.

The other available option, for me, in the Tweaks Menu is the AMD Athlon MP/4 SSE Control. This tweak enables SSE support on "Morgan" based Durons and "Palimino" based Athlons. For more info see the SSE Enable page.