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Kaitlyn Luna
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PostPosted: Mon May 22, 2006 8:38 pm    Post subject: VA-503+ BIOS settings Reply with quote
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
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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2006 6:34 am    Post subject: Re: VA-503+ BIOS settings Reply with quote
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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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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farmuse
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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 4:33 pm    Post subject: Re: VA-503+ BIOS settings Reply with quote
Kyle wrote:
Quote:
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 ?
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Kyle
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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2006 3:33 pm    Post subject: Re: VA-503+ BIOS settings Reply with quote
"farmuse" <farmuse@cows.net> wrote in message
news:e54ljg$j2a$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu...
| 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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Kyle
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farmuse
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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2006 7:32 pm    Post subject: Re: VA-503+ BIOS settings Reply with quote
Kyle wrote:
Quote:
"farmuse" <farmuse@cows.net> wrote in message
news:e54ljg$j2a$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu...
| 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.
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farmuse
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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2006 7:32 pm    Post subject: Re: VA-503+ BIOS settings Reply with quote
Kyle wrote:
Quote:
"farmuse" <farmuse@cows.net> wrote in message
news:e54ljg$j2a$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu...
| 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.
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