BIOS SETTINGS

[darkheart]

Hey someone give me a slap if I'm being a pain in the @ss cause I'm posting again. Okay here goes I have one of those infamous a K7s5A boards 300 watt power supply running windows 98 se and have 256 mb of PC2100 Ram and the most recent BIOS upgrade for this board. What I was interested in was this.....in the BIOS there are various options re. the RAM settings

1) DRAM Timing Congig options Safe/norma/Fast/Ultra
2) SDR/DDR CAS LAT options SPD/2T/2.5T/3T
3) SDR/DDR ACT TIME options 6T/7T/5T/4T
4) SDR/DDR Precharge options 4T/3T/2T

How should I set this up for the best performance.

Anyone ant idea re. below.

CLK Gen Spread Spectrum can anyone tell me what this means??

DRAM Driver Slew Rating ??????

[pinoy87]

what kind of ram do you have? If its a good kind then set the DRAM Timing Config to FAST. If its really good like corsair or geil then set it to ULTRA.

[JPMiller]

This is the Bios flash you want for this board ....cheepoman...latest version.
http://www.transload.net/~slotype2/E...os_Flash.shtml
This is where to go for a guide to best bios settings....
http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/ecs/...BIOS%20FAQ.htm
And this is a general bios fact guide for anyone...
http://arstechnica.com/guide/building/bios/bios-1.html
Have fun with this board...as old a fussy as it can be it is still one of my favorites!

[darkheart]

Originally posted by pinoy87
what kind of ram do you have? If its a good kind then set the DRAM Timing Config to FAST. If its really good like corsair or geil then set it to ULTRA.

The modules are manufactured by A-DATA. They use their own wafer and use Hynix chips. Is this a good module

By the way I appear to have clocked the processor it now thinks that its an xp2200 + is it safe to let it sit at this speed???

[darkheart]

Can I ask a really silly question here??
Is the frontside Bus the same as the external bus. I ran 3d mark 2001 on my system and it said I had an external bus speed of 66mhz my chip has a front side bus of 266 mhz my BIOS settings at the moment were 133/133 which I have been informed are my frontside bus speed/memory speed how can this be if my front bus speed is 266mhz........Im never getting this.
If the external bus speed is correct can I speed it up or perhaps 133 is really the extrnal bus speed.................