Asus A7V333 RAID bios settings Help!

[Michifan12]

Alright guys I've been reading up on all the forums and special Asus threads (thanks MechBgon)...however I'm still pretty confused on what my settings should be for my Asus A7V333 Raid board....I'm runnin a 1.2ghz AMD t-bird and one stick of 512mb Samsung pc2700...

I'm confused about the Ram settings in the bios and all the jumper configs on the mobo and also voltage settings....so my question pretty much is what should I set everything at to get the most performance considering what I have along with stability.....I'm also runnin a dual boot system with 2000 and ME incase it matters...

Also I dunno if you guys help me out on this but whenver I shutdown or restart windows 2000 I get a bluescreen saying "STOP! Kmode...blah blah blah", however it still shutdowns and restarts fine....the bluescreen just stays on for a few seconds so I can't really read the address and stuf it says....also my win 2000 seems to be functioning fine also....

Any help would be appreciated....thanks guys!!!

 

[mechBgon]

In my bit of testing, changing the RAM timings doesn't seem to have much effect in real-world tasks like 3D rendering/animation or heavy WinZip compressions. Try setting it to "Turbo" for the Performance option, 1:1 for the CPU/RAM ratio, and 2.0-3-3-6 with 1T Command disabled in the Chip Configuration menu. If it runs stable at that setting, then it's probably not productive to fight for another 1-2% that you'd never notice in real life.

 

[Michifan12]

Thanks MechBgon!! I'll try those settings out....

How about my voltage settings and jumper settings on the mobo....should I mess with them or is it really not worth it....???

 

[mechBgon]

I set my voltage to the lower 2.5-2.6V range instead of Asus' stock over-voltage arrangement, with no drawbacks, so I'd suggest doing that too (pull the caps off the DIMM-voltage jumpers, or cap them bottom-bottom).

I left the CPU voltage jumpers on Auto, disabled the onboard RAID controller by jumper to speed up the boot process, left the FireWire jumper enabled and the USB 2.0 jumper enabled (but disabled the USB 2.0 controller in Windows due to its conflict with my SCSI card ). I didn't bother with the USB standby jumpers or keyboard-power-on jumpers, personally.

 

[Michifan12]

Tight....thanks mechBgon....

I changed the ram timings and everythings running stable.....

I'll play with the voltage jumpers when I get a chance too...

Does anyone have any ideas about my Blue screen problem tho??? Thanks!