Having trouble with my BIOS plz help

[LordRaven]

I have been trying to figure out what my Bios settings should be exactly.
I have friends with system specs alot less then mine but there system performance in games seems to be alot better then mine.

I have fooled around with it a bit but i cant seem to get my games to run the way they should.

My spec's are:
shuttle AK31 V3.1 w/Phoenix-AwardBios
AMD XP 1900+
1GB crucial pc2100 RAM
Chaintech GeForce4 Ti 4600 special edition
Maxtor Diamondmax plus 9 80g


i read somewhere that shuttle performance defaults suck ass. They sure didnt help me at all

BIOS system/video/shadow cacheable's enabled or disabled?

Fast Write enabled or Disabled?

AGP Apreture Size?

WS Read/Writes Enabled or Disabled?

I guess i am just not finding the right combination of these things.

i have read everything i could find about BIOS. I have sifted through site after site looking at what people recommended for there mobo and system.
However none of that has seemed to work for my system. I really need to get ahold of somone that knows what an ideal settings would be for this system.

[tony_j15]

Got that mobo too. It is rock solid, but it hates it when you OC(at least mine does). enable fast writes. AGP aperature at 128mb.

Try this

[LordRaven]

uuhhh i am pretty sure my BIOS doesnt have a post write combine feature. what catagory is it ussuallu under?

Link fixed.

[Bovon]

i read somewhere that shuttle performance defaults suck a**.

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[Martoch]

Sweet link Rick!