Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 06 Sep 2001 23:51:28 +0200 | From | Gerbrand van der Zouw <> | Subject | Re: K7/Athlon optimizations again. (The sacrifices worked??) (VIA KT133A chipset) |
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Nicholas Knight wrote:
> I'd be curious if it's an issue with only one brand or release of BIOS > then.
Hi,
I am one of the person reporting success with some BIOS version over another. I have been experimenting some more and found the following:
Sytem: Board: MSI K7T Turbo (MS-6330) CPU: Athlon 1.2 GHz Video: NVidia GF2 Kernel: 2.4.6ac5 with the patch Kurt Garloff posted here some while ago (can't find the right reference)
Ranking from very unstable to stable: Very unstable: 2.4.6 plain, Award V2.7 Bios (i.e. without the Southbridge bug solved the official VIA way) Unstable: 2.4.6ac5 with or without Kurt's patch, Award V2.7 Bios Stable (up to now): 2.4.6ac5 with Kurt's patch and Award V2.8 Bios.
The key factor seemed to be the BIOS. The MSI website says that the following things changed between release 2.7 and 2.8: - Fix STR Fail on MS-6330Lite. - Fix 3Dmark 2001 sometimes halt - Fix K7T Turbo Limited cannot adjust vcore
Only the second fix seems applicable to my mobo, but the description does not give a clue.
I hope that someone can distill something useful out of this. I am of course willing to try some other combination of parameters if this would help finding the source of the problem.
Cheers,
Gerbrand van der Zouw
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