BIOS Tweaking?

[william8mitchell]

Well, here goes another try at typing the BIOS features, i'll do one menu per post juuuuust incase i get any problems again.

(This CPU is driving me mad, crashes almost all the time, cant listen to music and do anything else or open most new folders..... MUST KILL COMPUTER MUST KILL COMPUTER MUST KILL COMPUTER MUST KILL COMPUTER MUST KILL COMPUTER MUST KILL COMPUTER MUST KILL COMPUTER)

[william8mitchell]

STANDARD CMOS FEATURES

Date = ............
Time = ............
IDE Primary Master = "My HDD"
IDE Primary Slave = none
IDE Secondary Master = "My CDROM"
IDE Secondary Slave = none
Drive A = "My Floppy"
Drive B = none
Video = EGA/VGA
Halt On = All, But Keyboard
Base Memory = 640K *Greyed*
Extended Memory = 130048K *Greyed*
Total Memory = 131072K *Greyed*

[william8mitchell]

ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES

Virus Warning = Disabled
CPU Internal Cache = Enabled
External Cache = Enabled
CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking = Enabled
Quick Power On Self Test = Enabled
First Boot = Floppy
Second Boot = HDD-0
Thrid Boot = CDROM
Boot Other Device = Enabled
Swap Floppy Device = Disabled
Boot Up NumLock Status = On
Gate A20 Option = Fast
Security Option = Setup
OS Select For DRAM > 64MB Non-OS2
Report No FDD For Win95 = No
Video BIOS Shadow = Enabled
C8000-CBFFF Shadow = Disabled
CC000-CBFFF Shadow = Disabled
D0000-D3FFF Shadow = Disabled
D4000-D7FFF Shadow = Disabled
D8000-DBFFF Shadow = Disabled
DC000-DFFFF Shadow = Disabled

[william8mitchell]

ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES

DRAM Clock = Host Clk
AGP Aperture Size = 64M
AGP - 4X Mode = Enabled
AGP Driving Control = Auto
x AGP Driving Value = EC *Greyed*
OnChip USB = Enabled
OnChip USB 2 = Enabled
USB Keyboard Support = Disabled
OnChip Sound = Auto
OnChip Modem = Auto
Memory ECC Check = Disabled

[Beemer]

CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking = Disabled
I've never found a machine yet that is unstable by Disabling this one.

[william8mitchell]

INTERGRATED PERIPHERALS

OnChip IDE Channel 0 = Enabled
OnChip IDE Channel 1 = Enabled
IDE Prefatch Mode = Enabled
Primary Master PIO = Auto
Primary Slave PIO = Auto
Secondary Master PIO = Auto
Secondary Slave PIO = Auto
Primary Master UDMA = Auto
Primary Slave UDMA = Auto
Secondary Master UDMA = Auto
Secondary Slave UDMA = Auto
Initial Display First = PCI Slot
IDE HDD Block Mode = Enabled
Onboard FDD Controller = Enabled
Onboard Serial Port 1 = Auto
Onbaord Serial Port 2 = Auto
UART 2 Mode = Standard
x IR Function Duplex = Half *Greyed*
x TX, RX Inverting Enable = Hi, Lo *Greyed*
Onboard Parallel Port = 378/IRQ7
Onbaord Paralled Mode = Normal
x ECP Mode Use DMA = 3 *Greyed*
Onboard Legacy Audio = Enabled
Sound Blaster = Disabled
SB I/O Base Address = 220H
SB IRQ Select = IRQ 5
SB DMA Select = DMA1
MPU-401 = Disable
MPU-401 I/O Address = 330-333H
Game Port (200-207H) = Enabled

[Beemer]

First Boot = Floppy
is fine for now but when you have that thing running correctly, change the order to HDD, CD-ROM, Floppy.

Faster boot times and you won't be able to get a virus from booting from a forgotten floppy in the drive.

You will ahve to change it back if you ever want to use a floppy to boot from is all.

Cheers!

[Beemer]

Boot Other Device = Disabled
unless you want to boot from a Network source

[nukes]

Well, I've been put off buying one of those things. I was gonna get one ready-soldered onto a PC-chips board for £30 but it doesn't sound worth it.

[Beemer]

I just noticed you have reference to 2 ECC settings.
Someone might want to check me out on my answer for
CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking = Disabled