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#21 ·
ChrisRay, thanks for the warning. But what I'm wondering is did you have this problem before or after installing the new bios? If it was before, then perhaps that is why you encountered problems. Maybe the new bios fixes this. If your problem occured after you installed the new bios, then I will, indeed, be cautious. Thanks again.
sincerely,
sx/amiga
 
#22 ·
After installing the new Bios., Its strictly with Fast writes. Which you can disable with the Geforce Tweak Utility.

Fast Writes are great for benching however, Just not worth the loss of system stability.
 
#23 ·
Bah. I flashed my BIOS, and after playing with the settings for a bit, I am quite unhappy to report a loss of 300 3DMarks. I really have no explanation for that.... Still, it's nice having all those new options in my BIOS. I probably just need to figure out how the hell I had everything configured before.

(My flash was ok, but everything after was a mess. I had to manually reset the BIOS via pulling the CMOS battery.)
 
#24 ·
Strange. I got a good 100 mark increase by just having fast writes enabled.

Of course I got like a 1000 point increase Doing real OCing to my CPU/Card.
 
Discussion starter · #26 ·
Most BIOS updates are usually timing and compatibility tweaks.
 
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I had the same problem, but my problem was that my hard drive couldn't handle speeds that high and overheated, causing some of my OS files to become corrupt. WinXP is a lot more picky about such things, while Win98 will just kind of ignore the fact that your OS doesn't work, as it's just sort of implied. ;)
 
Discussion starter · #29 ·
Originally posted by metal_ash
i can overclock the my duron to 112 mhz but only when im using win98 or winme but i cant overclock even 110 or lower with win xp pro? can u help me?
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You'll have to unlock your Duron first with the pencil trick, but then again, the K7S5A doesn't have any provisions for multiplier changing, whether in the BIOS nor jumpers, so you're pretty much stuck with FSB OCing.
 
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#30 ·
I want to ask something off topic about this board...i installed 256 ddr for the 1st time(my p4 msi system use sdr only)...so my question is..is there any setting in the bios for this board that need to be change after installing the ram?when i look into my system information it say that i have 256 mb ram,is that normal? and when i browse my memory info in 3dmark 2001se is stated that i have 256 mb ram at 0 Hz,is that normal?
 
Discussion starter · #36 ·
I went back to the official BIOS. The previous Cheepobios was causing POST to hang up.
 
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Discussion starter · #39 ·
Well, it's dated October 29, 2002.
 
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