Need some BIOS video setting suggestions.

[CatScam]

On some other Mobo’s I had enabled options that looked like they would speed
things up, but turned out only to jack everything up. Right now all these options
are disabled, anyone know if I would benefit buy enabling them.

AMD 1800xp
Soyo Dragon plus, motherboard.
ATI Radeon 9600 pro.



Under, AGP & P2P Bridge control:
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AGP fast write ??
AGP Master 1 WS write ??
AGP Master 1 WS read ??
AGP post write ??


Under, Advance BIOS features:
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Video Bios shadow ?? (The help says turning it on will speed things up, but I have herd different)
HDD S.M.A.R.T capability ??



Thanks for any suggestions.

[Peter M]

Video BIOS, by how AGP and PCI work, is always shadowed anyhow. That BIOS setting is a remnant from legacy times, only actually doing something if you got an ISA bus VGA there.

Fast Write and Posted Write may be enabled if they work for you; extra waitstates is not something you want if the thing works with them disabled.

HDD SMART makes BIOS poll the drive's internal monitoring status once, during the powerup sequence, so you can see the drive's own opinion on its health. The idea is to give an early warning, a failure prediction, so users can backup their data and exchange the drive before there is an actual operational problem with it.