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? --
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. -- Best regards, Kyle "Kaitlyn Luna" <Kaitlyn Luna on AIM> wrote in message | 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? | | -- |
but write back gives better performance otherwise right ? IOW excluding her problem one would normally use write back correct ?
| 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.
