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KT266/KT266A chipsets 15C cooler?!

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t0mmyb0y

Senior member
Cooling Tweak at Tweak3D.net

Tweak3D posted this tweak which cools cpus on the Via KT266(A) chipsets by using a HALT command. Only problem is that it tanked Win2K and wouldn't let me get back in. (God Bless GoBack 🙂)

Anybody else tried this with any success? I followed the guide to the letter, and afterward windows 2000 would simply restart my computer over and over again. I know it helped my cooling, but once I used the program to activate the tweak every time I booted it killed it.

Thanks!
 
I tried this a few weeks ago and found it great at cooling too till my rig locked up all the time 🙁
I had to disable WPCredit via Safe Mode in XP to get my rig back.
There was a thread on ViaHardware about this, and the conclusion was that its broke, and Via/AMD have left it disabled for a reason? hmmm?
Maybe they will get it working with Thoroughbred?
 
I was curious about that tweak. But it seems some people have gotten it to work. I was going to apply the patch myself since i have an ASUS A7V266-E w/ a 1600 XP+ and it's running at 48 degrees.
 
It really depends on your system configuration.

People using non-Creative sound cards and Epox 8KHA+ motherboards have gotten it to work successfully. Such as myself.

I started using it yesterday. Computer's been on (in Windows XP) for more than a day, no problems. I ran 3DMark 2k1 a few times, and did some hard disk intensive I/O quite a few times. Also I had Prime95 running for about 2 hours when I first applied the tweak. Not to see if it makes 100% cpu load any cooler (it won't - duh!) but to see if there were any conflicts between those two registers and 100% cpu load.

Side note: I got virtually NO LOSS of performance in benchmarks after applying this tweak. Which is nice, because when I had my P3-800 on Win98SE, using CPUIdle, I would always register some sort of slight performance loss with it.

Note #2: I don't use WPCRSET because of bad crashing experiences on a different system (caused by a flaw in WPCRSET's kernel mode driver, which hasn't been developed in ages so it will never be fixed). I just manually open WPCREDIT and change the registers myself. Since I don't reboot very often, it works for me.
 
I was thinking about that myself...

It takes me from 49C to 41C idle. I think i will just initialize it every time I reboot.
 
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