Hi, I am a newb with with a problem with ALL the machines I own (Presario CQ62,CQ56,and three Lenovo desktops).
I think my machines all have mother board malware. I am now running Linux (Ubuntu13.04,Fedora15 on the notebooks because my windows OS's were performing so poorly. Linux isn't much better. I decided to look at my dmesg log and found a few lines that concern me. They read as follows:
[ 0.000000] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[ 0.000000] ACPI: HPET id: 0x1002a201 base: 0xfed00000
[ 0.000000] SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 2 hotplug CPUs
Even though they are dual core machines. The CQ62 is a single core! This appears if I boot a live cd w/no HD or if I boot from the hard drive. The dead give away is that to connect to any network I must use a virtbr (virtual-bridge) interface. I cant just use the realtek and connect directly to a net. My machines cant see the hardware. My theory is the OS is loading into a virtual environment that is being controlled by someone else. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. If you need more specific info, please let me know. If you are some kinda mobo/bios guru I would be happy to ship one or two out. I'll pay the postage!
Bryan Dicesare