BIOS Tweaking?

[Beemer]

Originally posted by william8mitchell
Uhhhh, i dont know what those drive PIO, UDMA things are, are they my HDD, CDROM and Floppy?

It's memory access settings.

If you take a close look at the IDE controllers on your mother board you will see Primary and Secondary silk screened on the board beside the controllers.

Each controller can have up to 2 drive type devices installed using an IDE cable. (Flat ribbon type cable with many wires leading from HDD and CD-ROM drives)

If you have 2 devices on one cable using one controller, one has to be jumpered as Master and the other as slave.

The controller it is on will either be Primary or Secondary.

If you check it out and you find you are only using the Primary controller with 2 devices on one IDE cable, you could disable the Secondary.

To configure your PIO/UDMA you will have to know if your devices support UDMA.

Your CD-ROM is probably PIO.

[Beemer]

The settings you started with are actually good. No real need to change anything. They aren't optimal settings but nothing that will present any problems. Mostly boot time adjustments is all you're going to accomplish.

Like I said earlier, do the GUI optimizations on my web pages.

Get that thing whipped into an O/S benchmark situation where everything is working without glitches and up to speed.

Cheers!

[william8mitchell]

Thanks for all your help Beemer, and the rest of you guys, im gonna get myself a new CPU and more RAM, see what that does to it, watch me as i come begging for help again in a couple weeks time lol.

Off to play Anarchy Online (a VERY slow and VERY laggy AO )

Look at my awful Avatar.... i had to shrink it loads.... looks crap...

[Beemer]

No begging here.
Help offered, without the necessity of knee pads.

Cheers!

[Beemer]

I removed the background and through a unsharp mask at it.

Cheers!

[thronka]

I can burn your own WinXP SP1 integrated CD using a custom program from: http://nu2.nu/bootcd/index.php?p=1
Click the Windows XP boot CD.

Thats the best way to install because it makes everything fresh along with SP1 integrated. Fixed alot of problems with my system =)

Give it a try.

[BustedOCer]

Originally Posted by jadison

Just a tidbit of info here - Via CPUs are not nearly as powerful as their AMD / Intel counterparts. Mainly due to the lack of L1/L2 cache and a different processor design, these things hamper the CPU's peformance.

BTW, it seems you have a Biostar motherboard, the M6VCF and a Via C3 processor. You can download the mobo manual HERE.

From the processor chart HERE it looks like that mobo can only support up to a 700MHz Via C3 CPU. You might have gotten a lower-clocked CPU than what you thought, they might've ripped you off. Now, I could be wrong and I'm not sure of this...but it's worth checking out (look in the manual on how to remove the Heatsink / Fan and look at the CPU itself, tell us what you see).

If you want to know how to OC that CPU, refer to 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 in your mobo manual.

Good luck.

Sorry to bust the arrogant information about the M6VCF Socket 370 motherboard for Intel P3 and compatable CPU's. Sure hte box will Show up to 800 and not 700. I too have this motherboard and Have used a Celeron 900 which has been OC'd to 1.3 Ghz and P3 1.4 Max CPU and OC's it to 2 Ghz. so this Fales information about the Overclocking capabilities is Fake and irrational. These guys should stop buyin Cheap Kingston Value RAM moduals of 512 for 20 bux at Target. Get good Quality RAM SamSung in the day of this motherboard had the best memory available but it is still a PRetty Penny of SD per. Mb of storage comparison.. As for the Memory Bus, CPU ect. Clocks speeds just continue in the same incredments that are listed in the manual then Adjust the memory Bus.

For example the 900 Mhz Celeron with 64 Kb L1/L2 Cache the last For headers are Closed (JP1).

The Memory Bus should be done like this Near the CMOS Chip and Case Fan Header From left to right open, open, close, close the Header number is (JFREQ1)

This motherboard I have found to kick and Decimate many in it's class. It is so reliable there is no need to benchmark it as there isn't a complaint I can think of Dam Great motherboard, It is about time that BIOSTAR finally did something right!!!!