Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi > > I have a compaq R4000 with the 2.4GIG AMD 64 bit. 4000+ rated. > proc cpuinfo reports > > cpu Mhz as 997.481 > cpuspeed is doing the speed stepping. do this: dmesg |grep -i powernow to gain some insight > Do I have to run the 64 bit version to have things run correctly? nope > I just have the normal 4.2 loaded at this time. > > The laptop seems slow for 4000+ as reflected by the cpu Mhz also. I would guess it's a combination of throttled CPU and slow hard disk. > Any thoughts on running the 32 bit version of 4.2 vs the 64 bit > version of 4.2? why buy a 64bit system if you aren't going to use a 64bit OS?