3-28 Configuring the System
Identifying the Pentium III Processor
NECC computer systems with the Intel
®
Pentium
®
III processor come
equipped with the most advanced Intel Pentium processor available.
Because the new Pentium III processor was introduced after the release of
the Microsoft
®
Windows
®
98 and Windows NT
®
operating systems, these
operating systems are not able to correctly identify the processor. These
operating systems might identify the Pentium III processor as a Pentium II
or Pentium Pro processor.
Windows identifies the processor on the General tab of the Windows
System Properties sheet. You can get to System Properties in either of the
following ways:
!
Right click the My Computer icon on the Windows desktop and select
Properties
from the drop-down menu.
!
Select
Settings
from the Windows Start menu, click
Control Panel
,
double click the System icon.
The Windows System Properties processor identification does not effect
in any way the performance of the Pentium III processor. At bootup, the
system BIOS detects the Pentium III processor.
You can obtain a patch to fix the Windows processor identification once
Microsoft releases the patch. Check for the patch on the Microsoft
website (
www.microsoft.com
) or the NECC website
(
www.nec-computers.com
).
