Name: cake 2006-09-22 23:54
Guys, have you ever heard of an l2 cache failing? I'm on a Pentium M 1.73ghz on a Sony Vaio FS-742/W.
It began when I was burning a DVD and after the DVD drive did its job, it suddenly wasn't mounted anymore, okay... I though so I restarted. This restart was the longest restart I have ever had with this laptop.
So I booted into Windows, and suspected the laptop's underclocking feature to conserve battery was activated, so I opened CrystalMark and CPU-Z to check the timings, all was right. I clicked the cache tab just to look around to see if anything was off and I noticed that the L2 cache ratio read "full". I tried googling this but nothing came up but processor reviews.
I asked around and a friend told me that the l2 cache might've failed.
Guys, I need some help :(
It began when I was burning a DVD and after the DVD drive did its job, it suddenly wasn't mounted anymore, okay... I though so I restarted. This restart was the longest restart I have ever had with this laptop.
So I booted into Windows, and suspected the laptop's underclocking feature to conserve battery was activated, so I opened CrystalMark and CPU-Z to check the timings, all was right. I clicked the cache tab just to look around to see if anything was off and I noticed that the L2 cache ratio read "full". I tried googling this but nothing came up but processor reviews.
I asked around and a friend told me that the l2 cache might've failed.
Guys, I need some help :(