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which Pro2A BIOS?

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toph99

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i used the special overclocking BIOS because i needed the 1.85V option, but with that i sacraficed the ability to set my ram timing and speed. i flashed back to the latest BIOS, and can only get 1.70V max. what is the best one to use?
 
Keep the overclocker BIOS and use the automatic setting by SPD. This is faster than manual setting also the overclocker bios is the fastest bios regarding memory performance.
 
personally i'd keep the OC bios because of the improved memory scores but some have noted that it lowers hard drive scores. if you need 1.85V you could always connect all of the L7 bridges, although that would require you do take your HSF off and put it back together. i'm using crucial ram so the SPD sets it to 2-2-2-5 w/4-way interleave (according to WPCredit). your SPD settings may vary depending on what kind of ram you have.
 
I tried other bios versions also but my hard drive scores were the same with all versions, in Windows 98. In DOS I´m getting very poor HD scores from the MSI, I don´t know is this the same with other KT133 boards also?. About 2,5 MB/s with an IBM DTLA 307015. With an Promise Ultra66 everything is OK in DOS.
 
I had the same problem with the low hardrive scores to. The fix for me was installing the sp1 for w 2000.
Have an adaptic 2940u2w scsi, the scores were low equally on scsi and ide till i did the update. The problem I am having now is that i cant boot from scsi cdrom on any bios except the oc bios.
 
Anyone know how to fix low HDD scores with the 10b14 BIOS in Win98? The win2k fix is great but can't find anything for Win98. The 10b14 BIOS memory scores are way superior to the other BIOS' but HDD scores are really just horrible.
 
The problem with HD performance with the onboardcontroller exists only in DOS. In Win98SE everything is OK. Onboardcontroller and Ultra66 are nearly same performance. I´m often working in Dos with Driveimage so HD performance is important for me. But I don´t want using a Promise because there is a very long bootdelay with it.
 
Subversal
What HD are you using? Maybe there is a problem with the HD. Are you using an ATA66/1oo cable? What are the scores? I´m using an IBM DTLA 307015 75 GXP and an older Quantum Fireball EX and both are performing very well with the 10b14 BIOS in WIN98SE.
 
I'm using a WD 15.3GB ata/66 7200 rpm drive. The scores using the 2.2 BIOS using HDtach are as follows:


2.2BIOS

Read speed: 22324.9kpbs average
Random access time: 11.5ms
Read burst speed: 53mbps


10b14BIOS

Read Speed: 14378.2kpbs average
Random access time: 9.5ms
Read burst speed: 13mbps




 
Here's mine with the 10b14

Access time: 9.1ms
Read speed: 26066
Burst speed: 53401kps
CPU utilization: 3.7%
 
I think something else is screwy... ran Sandra and got this:

2.2BIOS

11000

10b14

10000


I just rounded those numbers down. But I was getting above 16000 in sandra. I don't what BIOS it was though. Probably 1.9.
 
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