VA-503+ BIOS settings

I am affected by the problem documented at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194836/en-us
What should I do in my BIOS setup so that the Win98 install can succeed?

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Toggle the Sustained 3T Write setting in the BIOS advanced chipset
setup, enabled=write through, disabled=write back mode.

I would also disable "read around write" as this causes problems with
some video cards.

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Best regards,
Kyle
"Kaitlyn Luna" <Kaitlyn Luna on AIM> wrote in message
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| I am affected by the problem documented at
| http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194836/en-us
| What should I do in my BIOS setup so that the Win98 install can
succeed?
|
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|

Kyle wrote:
> Toggle the Sustained 3T Write setting in the BIOS advanced chipset
> setup, enabled=write through, disabled=write back mode.
>
> I would also disable "read around write" as this causes problems with
> some video cards.
>
but write back gives better performance otherwise right ? IOW
excluding her problem one would normally use write back correct ?

"farmuse" <> wrote in message
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| Kyle wrote:
| > Toggle the Sustained 3T Write setting in the BIOS advanced chipset
| > setup, enabled=write through, disabled=write back mode.
| >
| > I would also disable "read around write" as this causes problems
with
| > some video cards.
| >
| but write back gives better performance otherwise right ? IOW
| excluding her problem one would normally use write back correct ?

There is a slight speed increase in write operations with write-back
mode, however, write-back mode decreases the cached memory range from
256k to 128k with a 1 meg cache size. At one time, I tried write-back
mode and found the difference to be unnoticable, only by use of
benchmark programs could the difference be detected, so I subsequently
always used write-thru mode.

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Best regards,
Kyle

Kyle wrote:
> "farmuse" <> wrote in message
> news:e54ljg$j2a$...
> | Kyle wrote:
> | > Toggle the Sustained 3T Write setting in the BIOS advanced chipset
> | > setup, enabled=write through, disabled=write back mode.
> | >
> | > I would also disable "read around write" as this causes problems
> with
> | > some video cards.
> | >
> | but write back gives better performance otherwise right ? IOW
> | excluding her problem one would normally use write back correct ?
>
> There is a slight speed increase in write operations with write-back
> mode, however, write-back mode decreases the cached memory range from
> 256k to 128k with a 1 meg cache size. At one time, I tried write-back
> mode and found the difference to be unnoticable, only by use of
> benchmark programs could the difference be detected, so I subsequently
> always used write-thru mode.
>
thanks, the reason I ask is I changed a P III to write-through and
the performance dropped noticeably. But that is a different cpu etc.