BIOS Tweaking?

[william8mitchell]

Well, my printer i sout of ink and i dont know when i will get the chance to buy more, i tried writing some of the commands down but when i got in the BIOS almost all of them werent there, im going to see if i can get a Athlon or a P3 sometime soon.

Oh yeah, winXP is really begginging to annoy me, most new folders i create, after a while if i ever try and access them by double clicking, it just crashes my computer, everytime, same folders, any idea what doing that?

Thanks for the help.

[nurdonsite2]

im going to see if i can get a Athlon or a P3 sometime soon.

yeah i think that would be ur best option. u can get a new cpu and MB and still used all ur other hardware.......

[william8mitchell]

Im not going to be buying a new mobo, the one i have i only just got it up and running after having problems fitting it, its new so all im going to do is find a cheap second hand CPU on ebay when i have the money.

[Beemer]

You never mentioned the amount of RAM you have installed on that machine. With XP this could be an important part of your problem. 256 MB's of RAM I figure is the minimum you will want to have on your WinXP box. With Windows XP as with WinY2K, you have an Operating System that is prepared for all sorts of duties. Lots of these duties aren't recognized by your wants and needs so you should look into shutting down some of these background running programs and services. Here's a few pages to help you get started:

http://beemerworld.com/tips/maintainxp.htm
http://beemerworld.com/tips/resourcewasters.htm
http://beemerworld.com/tips/servicesxp.htm
http://beemerworld.com/tips/fluff.htm
http://beemerworld.com/tips/components.htm

Take a few days to setup your machine to run the way you want it to run.

Cheers!

[Beemer]

You can post a list of what you see on each of the BIOS option pages and we can suggest a setting for you. This would be an easy process as most of the configurations will require default settings and only a few settings to actually make changes.

Cheers!

[william8mitchell]

Yeah Beemer that was exactly what i was going to do when i could get round to it, make a list of my settings.
I do know my RAM has something to do with the problems (128MB SDRAM PC100, ARRRGGHH) But im ordering a stick of 512MB SDRAM PC133 just as soon as the seller hurrys up and contacts me.
I also have a WinXP service pack to download still, that may be what is causing the folder problems and stuff, its 40/50 megs tho and im only 56K (nothing i can do about it) so its just getting the time to leave my PC dowloading and installing that too.

[Beemer]

I would suggest that you get your machine in good working order before you get the SP1. SP1 has been known to create its own brand of problems on some machines. Create a benchmark O/S so it's easier to detect problem sources later. If you install SP1 now, where do you start fixing things later on.

56MB download is the worst case scenerio. You might get away with less.

Cheers!

[william8mitchell]

Well ive just been copying all the BIOS stuff, the next post will be all the commands, expect it in about half an hour lol, my hands are gonna be so sore....

[william8mitchell]

AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGG YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! I held down shift to long which turned on filter keys or something, then i moved my mouse by accident and it when fliping through loads of pages I'd typed loads ARRRRRGGHHHHH.... well i dont wanna have to type all that again at the moment so i'll do it later on, in parts or something so i dont lose a whole bit bit like that again. (stupid damned blasted winXP $%^&*$?£&">$?@!!!!!!!!

[Beemer]

Here's some keys to beware of. lol

http://beemerworld.com/tips/shortcutkeys.htm

Cheers!