Asus A7V1333 BIOS guide

[TeMpT]

Does anyone know any A7V133 bios guide? Trying to set the optimal settings on my board.

Thanks

 

[Dulanic]

Simple...

Turn on Optimal System Performance
Turn on Byte Merge
Turn on 7ns PC143 (This turns on Cas2)
Turn on AGP Fast Writes if it works on your video card

The Asus BIOS is very simple because it enables most tweaking options on its own.

Also turn off anything you dont need like Serial Ports or Onboard Audio.

 

[TeMpT]

Just swapped my ABIt to ASUS and thought there is more to be tweaked...not sure if that is a good thing or bad thing...
especially with those Weak/Strong and delay settings

 

[rpr]

I'm also about to setup this board. How do you enable 4-way interleaving with this mobo? Is there a setting in the BIOS or do you need to use a hack like on the Asus P3V4X.

 

[nealh]

when you set the system to optimal it sets the memory to 4way interleave

 

[rpr]

nealh: Thanks for the reply. I could be wrong, but I thought I saw another post that may have implied that the 4-way interleaving activated by the optimal setting is actually turned off when you have the fsb set above a certain point. Any truth to this?

 

[Dulanic]

<< Just swapped my ABIt to ASUS and thought there is more to be tweaked...not sure if that is a good thing or bad thing...
especially with those Weak/Strong and delay settings >>



Leave it all to Auto.... Asus enables most things by default if you have Optimal turned on. All the tweaks on the Abit will be turned on for the Asus if you turn on thoose few options.

 

[TeMpT]

I'll buy all the Auto thing, but I'd stay away from the Byte Merge. Seems like by enabling this, my 3Com 905C on PCI4 just stop receiving network packets (even tho Windows and 3Com diagnostics think it is working just fine).

 

[Dulanic]

<< I'll buy all the Auto thing, but I'd stay away from the Byte Merge. Seems like by enabling this, my 3Com 905C on PCI4 just stop receiving network packets (even tho Windows and 3Com diagnostics think it is working just fine). >>



That is possible... what Byte Merge does is take all the small packets of info and store them up into one full 32-bit packet and then send it... saves on PCI bandwith... some cards may not like it, but if it works ok then use it. It works fine with my Netgear NIC in PCI4.