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Title: BIOS question
Post by: 68DevilM on April 20, 2005, 09:38:49 PM

other than the drive setup what else do i really have to set up in bios, if im not going to overclock...my new system will be here tommorow:D


system spec's

Rosewill ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 400W Power Supply
DFI LANPARTY UT nF3 250Gb Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb ATX AMD
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ ClawHammer/Hammer 800MHz FSB 1MB L2 Cache Socket 754
CORSAIR 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR400(PC3200)
RADEON 9800 PRO 256MB
AUDIGY 2ZS GAMER

Title: BIOS question
Post by: Kev367th on April 20, 2005, 11:00:26 PM

Usual stuff -
AGP aperture (depends on vid card mem).
For AMD64 set the HTT bus to as high as it will go.
Memory timings auto, but if option is there set the "Command Rate" to 1T
Disable any legacy (eg Comm1, Comm2, Printer etc ports you dont use).
Disable any IDE channels you dont use.
Disable drive detection for IDE channel where no drive is fitted.

 I'm sure others can come up with more, this is just off the top of my head.