MSI 6905 Master & PIII 700a on ASUS P3BF. UT demo SSSlow! Help Setup.

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Games ran slow even at default speed 700Mhz on Asus P3BF. But with MSI 6309 I can push it to 1Ghz.

Please help me set it up. I prefer the P3BF.

Thanks.

 

[Hard_Boiled]

That seems odd, my P3B-F ran UT fine even when I had a Celeron 566@850. I use the same slotket, the MSI 6905 Master. Make sure you have the jumpers set for coppermine on the slotket, probably isn't your problem though. I really didn't have to change anything in the bios, it's puzzling to me that you think the motherboard is your problem. Do other games run slowly or is it just the UT demo?

I remember once after I did a format of my hard drive, I bought Kingpin and it seemed slow and jerky on a TnT2. Turns out my problem was that DMA wasn't enabled for the hard drive, as soon as I turned it on the chunkiness went away. Is your game running just all around slow, or is it chunky and skip alot?

 

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Thanks Hard_Boiled.

All Games ran slow.
What I did is set jumber on the 6305 at 100Mhz (J1 open, J4 short 2,3), then use soft bios to overclock it to 133Mhz.

Can you give some details how you set up your jumbers on MSI 6309.

 

[damocles]

to check your DMA is enabled

press windows key + pause/break

go to device manager, then disk drives and double click on genreric IDE disk drives.

go into settings, is DMA enabled?.

Also there is a tweaking guide here
and a FAQ Here

 

[Hard_Boiled]

Let me get this straight, you are overclocking your P3 700 to 933, using a 133 mhz bus. Well, you should cover J1 and on J4 cover pins 1-2, not 3-4. This will put it on cpu define, thats what u want. Second, make sure that on J3 you ahve 1-2 covered, this is for the coppermine cpu's, like your P3 700. This is how I set up mine, I use a P3 850 coppermine, same as yours just faster. I just overclock using the bios functions like you.

Let me know if either changing these jumpers or enabling DMA fixes you up, otherwise I'll think of something else. I would definitely make sure the jumpers are set properly.

 

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Hard_Boiled,

I left J3 open instead of covered 1-2. It works find now. Very nice board. Have it over a year still like it.

Thanks alot.