"ELouan" wrote:
| I run:
| Abit KT7a (via KT133 chipset)
| Athlon 1GHz
| Creative Geforce2 200mx
| Windows 2000
|
| I've installed all the latest drivers and bios for my components. But | I'm now experiencing random freezes while I play counter-strike (moste | excellent game by the way) | I've checked almost everything, and I'm pretty sure it's my BIOS | settings that are wrong. Does anybody have some settings that are | running fine and stable? I am not necessarily looking for the best | performances, but rather something robust ans STABLE (i hate getting | froze in the middle of a nice frag). | Any suggestions will be most appreciated | | -- | Ceci est une signature automatique de MesNews. | Site : http://mesnews.no-ip.com |
Hi ELouan -
I had a KT7-Raid system with an Athlon 1.2 GHz (with a 100 MHz FSB) for quite a while and, though it's not exactly the same board and chipset as the KT7A, it does use the same BIOS. The BIOS flashed to the board is the latest: A9. Following are the BIOS settings I used, which served me quite well (and my dad, who is still using the board, as far as I know, uses the same settings). On the system, he has two hard disks, attached as Masters, on the Raid controller.
Jef
SoftMenuIII:
CPU Operating Speed: 1200
CPU Power Supply: CPU Default
Fast CPU Command Decode: Fast
CPU Drive Strength: 2
DRAM Clock: HCLK + PCICLK
Enhance Chip Performance: Enabled
Force 4-way Interleave: Enabled
Enable DRAM 4K-page ode: Enabled
Standard CMOS Features:
IDE Primary Master: Auto (CD-RW)
IDE Primary Slave: None
IDE Secondary Master: Auto (DVD)
IDE Secondary Slave: None
Drive A: 1.44
Drive B: None
Floppy Mode 3: Disabled
Video: EGA/VGA
Halt On: All, but keyboard
Advanced BIOS Features:
Virus Warning: Disabled
CPU Level 1 Cache: (hidden) Enabled
CPU Level 2 Cache: (hidden) Enabled
CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking: (hidden) Enabled
Quick Power On Self Test: Enabled
First Boot: Floppy
Second Boot: CDROM
Third Boot: HDD-3
Boot Other Device: Enabled
Swap Floppy Drive: Disabled
Boot Up Floppy Seek: Disabled
Boot Up NumLock: On
Typematic Rate Setting: Enabled
Typematic Rate: 30
Typematic Delay: 250
Security Option: Setup
OS Select For DRAM > 64MB: Non-OS2
Video BIOS Shadow: Disabled
Shadowing address ranges: All Disabled
Delay For HDD: 0
Advanced Chipset Features:
Bank 01, 2/3, 4/5 DRAM Timing: Turbo
DRAM Bank Interleave: 4-way
Delay DRAM Read Latch: Auto
SDRAM Cycle Length: 3
Memory Hole: Disabled
PCI Master Pipeline Req: Disabled
P2C/C2P Concurrency: Disabled
Fast R-W Turn Around: Enabled
System BIOS Cacheabled: Disabled
Video RAM Cacheable: Disabled
AGP Aperature Size: 64M
AGP-4X Mode: Enabled
AGP Driving Control: Auto
AGP Driving Value: DA
Fast Write Supported: Supported
K7 CLK_CTL Select: (hidden) Optimal
CPU to PCI Write Buffer: Enabled
PCI Dynamic Bursting: Enabled
PCI Master 0 WS Write: Enabled
PCI Delay Transaction: Enabled
PCI#2 Access #1 Retry: Enabled
Delay Transaction: Enabled
PCI Master Read Cacheing: Enabled
AGP Master 1 WS Write: Disabled
AGP Master 1 WS Read: Disabled
PCI Master Bus Time-out: 0
Integrated Peripherals:
Onboard IDE-1 Controller: Enabled
Master Drive PIO Mode: Auto
Slave Drive PIO Mode: Auto
Master Drive Ultra DMA: Auto
Slave Drive Ultra DMA: Auto
Onboard IDE-2 Controller...: same
IDE Prefetch Mode: Enabled
Init Display First: AGP
USB Controller: Enabled
USB Keyboard Support: OS
ATA100RAID IDE Controller: Enabled
IDE HDD Block Mode: Enabled
Onboard FDD Controller: Enabled
Onboard Serial Port 1/2: 3F8/IRQ4 - 2F8/IRQ3
Onboard IR Function: Disabled
Onboard Parallel Port: 378/IRQ7 - ECP+EPP - DMA 3
Power Management Setup:
ACPI: (hidden) Enabled
Power Management: User Define
HDD Power Down: Disable
Doze Mode: Disable
Suspend Mode: Disable
ACPI Suspend Type: S1 (POS)
PM Control by APM: No
Video Off Option: Suspend->Off
Video Off Method: DPMS Support
Modem Use IRQ: N/A
Soft-Off by PWRBTN: Instant-Off
State After Power Failure: Off
Wake Up Events:
VGA: Off
LPT&COM: None
HDD&FDD: On
PCI Master: Off
PowerOn by PCI Card: Disabled
Wake UpOn LAN/Ring: Disabled
RTC Alarm Resume: Disabled
Primary Intr: On
IRQ3: Enabled
IRQ4: Enabled
IRQ5: Enabled
IRQ6: Enabled
IRQ7: Enabled
IRQ8: Disabled
IRQ9: Disabled
IRQ10: Disabled
IRQ11: Disabled
IRQ12: Enabled
IRQ13: Enabled
IRQ14: Enabled
IRQ15: Enabled
PnP/PCI Configurations:
PNP OS Installed: Yes
Reset Configuration Data: Disabled
Resources Controlled By: Auto(ESCD)
PCI/VGA Pallette Snoop: Disabled
Assign IRQ For VGA: Enabled
Assign IRQ For USB: Enabled
INT Pin 1 Assignment - INT Pin 4 Assignment: Auto all 4
