Underperforming CPU

[caravel]

Only once did I flash a BIOS.
It was the AOpen AK-73Pro or so and the tool was quite nice, it showed me whether the copy process was successful or not so I repeated the process until it showed everything was fine(it wasn't in the first few tries) and then rebooted, worked fine. Since then I never flashed a BIOS again and wouldn't have advised you to(too late obviously), because of the dangers involved.
Well, time for a Core 2 Duo.

I have upgraded the firmware in many different types of devices such as PC motherboards, printers, graphics cards, CDROM drivers, routers etc, and never once had a problem. If done correctly, from an MSDOS boot disk and with the correct BIOS image, it is trouble free. Sometimes a BIOS update is necessary so it is not enough to simply not do it.

In this case I would say that it was necessary but wasn't carried out correctly. In fact from the symptoms described I'd say that entirely the wrong image file was used.

As to resetting the factory defaults, that wouldn't have worked as the CPU was probably unsupported by the BIOS anyway. Supported CPU's are simply detected and set to the right speed, unsupported ones are not.

I must admit Watchman, that I did not expect you to immediately go and try to flash the BIOS yourself. If you feel that you did this acting on my advice, then I must apologise sincerely for not wording the post clearly enough. I was rather assuming that your next post would be something to the effect of: "ok so how do I flash the BIOS"?