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Identifying the Pentium III Processor
NEC 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
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
!
from the drop-down menu.
Properties
Select
Settings
!
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
(
www.nec-computers.com
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®
98 and Windows NT
from the Windows Start menu, click
) or the NECC website
).
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operating systems, these
Control Panel
,
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