VA503+ issues

External Since: May 22, 2004 Posts: 17

But does anyone know how to
fine tweak this board or, how to interpret it's @;{*§!*!* BIOS settings
options, especially "sustain 3T " and PCI #2 master read/write wait state"
and simmilar, they're so lame. And is there a cure for it's low memmory
bandwidth.

& by D way, how to spell freelee, as it is of 'free to do something'.

Thanks in advance 4 this last one.

I see we're all here old timers. Shure did go trough a lot with my VA. '
have on it promise ultra ata 100, creative live!, yamaha opl sax (isa), 256
MB, k6 500 II (previous to it's career was p I 233 mmx), 9800 SE 128 MB, ATX
PSU, it's not o/c-ed, since it makes an electronic component near the CPU to
(!CHECK THIS!) solder off, and anyway it's PCI/AGP devices aren't stable at
>100 MHz FSB, but that's not completly true (lucky for thoes who gets it
that way), and there's more and not apropriate any more. We all should know
that it is beter to have higher FSB than CPU speed, when you can not rise
CPU any more. But even today PCI against FSB multiplers are so lousy. BLA
BLA BLA. OK! Sorry fo this. My BIOS is from 2000, but the bord's got issues,
I'll tell you. From mine experience, don't recomend any (except some that
worked with others, depending on IDE & ATAPI device instaled) via 4in1 *hit,

External Since: May 14, 2004 Posts: 183

Hello, Edi.

A Radeon 9800SE works on a VA-503+? Wow, that's good to know. I guess it
must be a universal graphics card that still works on old AGP 1x/2x slots.

BIOS tweaks for the VA-503+ (Chipset Features Setup):
See <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.rojakpot.com/bog.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.rojakpot.com/bog.aspx</a> for explanations of what these things
mean!
-------------------------------------------------------------
Video BIOS cacheable: disabled
System BIOS cacheable: disabled
Memory Hole...: disabled
DRAM Page Mode: enabled
Sustained 3T Write: disabled (enabled for slower but more stable)
Write Cache Pipeline: enabled
DRAM Read Pipeline: enabled
Read Around Write: enabled
Memory ECC Check: only if you have ECC RAM
Bank 0/1/2/3/4/5 Timing: turbo
SDRAM Cycle Length: depends on your RAM CAS rating... "3" if you do not know
SDRAM Bank Interleave: Try 4-way. If that does not work, then 2-way.
SDRAM MD-to-HD Pop + 1T: disabled
SDRAM Sustain 4T Cycle: disabled
Aperature Size: 64MB
AGP-2X Mode Support: enabled
Spread Spectrum Modulated: disabled
-------------------------------------------------------------

Low memory bandwidth? Well, you are pretty much stuck with it. If you are
brave, you can try overclocking the FSB while keeping the CPU speed about the
same. For example, if you have a K6-2 450 running at (4.5 x 100), try running
it at (4 x 112). Of course, your memory and components will have to be able
to handle this, as well, but it is a way to "cheat".

"Freely". In English, the "-ly" suffix is used to change adjectives to
adverbs.

free --> freely

happy --> happily
The children are happy. They play their games happily.

quick --> quickly
The man is fast; he is quick. The man runs quickly down the street.

--Alex

Edi wrote:

> But does anyone know how to
> fine tweak this board or, how to interpret it's @;{*§!*!* BIOS settings
> options, especially "sustain 3T " and PCI #2 master read/write wait state"
> and simmilar, they're so lame. And is there a cure for it's low memmory
> bandwidth.
>
> & by D way, how to spell freelee, as it is of 'free to do something'.
>
> Thanks in advance 4 this last one.
>
> I see we're all here old timers. Shure did go trough a lot with my VA. '
> have on it promise ultra ata 100, creative live!, yamaha opl sax (isa), 256
> MB, k6 500 II (previous to it's career was p I 233 mmx), 9800 SE 128 MB, ATX
> PSU, it's not o/c-ed, since it makes an electronic component near the CPU to
> (!CHECK THIS!) solder off, and anyway it's PCI/AGP devices aren't stable at
> >100 MHz FSB, but that's not completly true (lucky for thoes who gets it
> that way), and there's more and not apropriate any more. We all should know
> that it is beter to have higher FSB than CPU speed, when you can not rise
> CPU any more. But even today PCI against FSB multiplers are so lousy. BLA
> BLA BLA. OK! Sorry fo this. My BIOS is from 2000, but the bord's got issues,
> I'll tell you. From mine experience, don't recomend any (except some that
> worked with others, depending on IDE & ATAPI device instaled) via 4in1 *hit,