Boot Screen changed?

Ok this is strange but I want to ask anyway.

I changed my wireless card and i think the boot screen changed but i am not positive it may have been like this prior i just didn't notice.

OK well when you start up the cf-29 it has a blue screen with panasonic written across it in the lower right corner it has a logo from Intel.

Now when i first got the cf-29 i can swear i saw that logo say Intel inside and have the centrino logo like the sticker on the laptop.

Now i notice that it says Intel inside and says Pentium m in writing and has no centrino logo.

maybe I am crazy but what in the world would make this change?

I did not load a new bios onto it and i did not change any settings in the bios.

what do you guys think? does your have the centrino logo?


-James

 

Centrino is a combination of intel chipset, cpu and intel wireless card. Take out the wireless card and its no longer a centrino

What brand is the wireless card you put in?

 

Engenius 600mw card.

Thanks for the info I had no idea you had to have all three to make it centrino


-James

 

The wireless card you removed was a intel 2100b.
That is the only card that was available from factory for your mk-1 cf-29.
It is the only card that shows centrino when booting.
Now your boot will say pentium M.

Alex

 

Ya the 2100b was too old need a g card.

Thanks for the info I didn't think changing the wireless card would change the boot screen but i guess i was wrong.


-James

 

Ok James, so you've 'downgraded' a Centrino to Pentium M. Would you undo the G for the B card? [I don't think so]

I'm curious though; is there a performance hit or just a different splash logo?
Ron in SG

 

I was reading about it and i guess the centrino thing is just to save power. It shut component's off or puts them into stand by to save power and give you more battery life.

I don't think it will loose any performance but i hope it does not change my power saving feature. The CPU still throttles back so i would guess it is the same just the wireless card will not save as much power i dunno.

I got a new battery today as well so I will not even be able to see if there is a difference.

 

Here is the info I found its a pretty good read.

http://www.atheros.com/pt/whitepapers/Centrino_vs_Pentium_whitepaper.pdf

 

Don’t worry.
Hardly any difference at all.
Centrino is a marketing thing that intel did a few years ago.
They wanted an approved hardware combination.
You only changed your wifi card.
But your hi-power card will draw a bit more power than the intel.

Alex

 

Can't speak on your issue zipply, but flipfire is MOST DEF right on this... all centrino means is that it is an intel chipset/wifi/LAN if either of those 3 aren't the case then it is simply a pentium m... Intel want's their hand on EVERYTHING and they will be stupid about it if all their products wern't in those laptops... I used to get 2 different types of IBM T41's. Those with and those WITHOUT wifi cards... all had the SAME components except the ones without the wifi cards had a "Pentium M" sticker instead of the "Centrino" sticker!

 

Well being into the desktop world more than notebooks I had no idea what the hell happened. After reading here and the article i found it makes sense now.

Thanks guys


-James