OK, I posted this at Hard Forum. Please, do not berate me for not upgrading the hardware or blast me for overclocking my wife's 4-year old system. I don't need a lecture, just ideas. Now that that's out of the way. Old school Athlon Classic lovin:
I want to upgrade my wife's system to Windows XP. When I bought it in 2000 the 700 Slot A came with a 900 core and abnormally fast cache. The 700 has a native cache divider of 1/2. Since even my faster-than-normal cache will not run at 500 MHz, I need to use the 2/5 divider to hit 1000 MHz on the 900 core. Stay with me
Since my wife's Epox 7kxa doesn't have the ability to change the cache divider in BIOS, I've used a custom COM file to change it for four years. The COM file was created for the 7kxa by a helpful AMDZone programmer four years ago. It only works with the 7kxa and with the BIOS currently loaded. It's nice, because I can turn off the L2 cache in the BIOS and this file will turn it back on with the 2/5 divider.
Is there any way to preload this custom COM file in Windows XP? I know this is old stuff, but any ideas would be appreciated.
I want to upgrade my wife's system to Windows XP. When I bought it in 2000 the 700 Slot A came with a 900 core and abnormally fast cache. The 700 has a native cache divider of 1/2. Since even my faster-than-normal cache will not run at 500 MHz, I need to use the 2/5 divider to hit 1000 MHz on the 900 core. Stay with me
Since my wife's Epox 7kxa doesn't have the ability to change the cache divider in BIOS, I've used a custom COM file to change it for four years. The COM file was created for the 7kxa by a helpful AMDZone programmer four years ago. It only works with the 7kxa and with the BIOS currently loaded. It's nice, because I can turn off the L2 cache in the BIOS and this file will turn it back on with the 2/5 divider.Is there any way to preload this custom COM file in Windows XP? I know this is old stuff, but any ideas would be appreciated.
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