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Offline RSLQK186

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WHATS IN YOUR BIOs
« on: December 09, 2004, 08:32:31 PM »
Bought an new HP that had what I needed at a price I could afford and still no joy. Been keeping up with forum so I knew it wasn't hardware. Had planes warping from horizon to base and back. Sent bulk mail to Scuzzy and was asked to ckeck the usual suspects and one I didn't think of but it persisted. My varience in delay looked like saw teeth. Went through Roscoroo's sticky on VC tweeks for the 3rd time  and as almost an afterthought I looked in my MOBO BIOs and saw that INITIAL DISPLAY was set to PCI. Factory installed AGP VC was what I paid for so I let the factory air out of the tower to check. Changed the display setting to AGP and the game plays better than AH1 did. Not saying anyone should muck with BIOs before trying other things but if you have the hardware and a phone (I play on standard dial-up) the game is playable. Don't give up, speek up.
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« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2004, 12:52:39 PM »
Default settings on most BIOS setups is to give preference to PCI for video.  I'm assuming its a holdover from a time before AGP was popular.  I've seen many new computers with onboard AGP chipsets with the BIOS set to PCI instead of AGP.  Dont know why they dont bother to set that for you, when the computer is supposed to be "ready to go".  I saw one a friend of mine bought once that wouldnt boot.  I checked his BIOS and the darn thing hadn't detected the HD.  I ran the autodetect, and it picked it up first try.  Some are picky that way.  I guess at HP they dont bother to check the BIOS before shipping.  Of course, almost half of his 20 GB HD had bad sectors too, but thats another issue.
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« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2004, 09:44:38 PM »
when they assemble the mass market pc's
they load a bios chip thats preburned and set for  there main setup , the hard drives are all preloaded also befor there even installed in the pc .

ECS has a film at there website that shows all the steps that there components go thru and the assmbly /programing process  its pritty cool .

Hey Hak im glad to see my rambleings are doing some good ...  I guess i'll keep up my little research and development program  
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