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by Snugglebear
Sun Dec 08, 2002 8:17 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: 3DMark 2001 SE
Replies: 3
Views: 5227

That's the anchor, yes. 3dmark is a graphics bench and as you can guess, it stresses the card the most. You'd be shocked how many people are running around with MX-level cards whining about how low their scores are. No offense to you or anyone else, but it just blows me away how people like to team ...
by Snugglebear
Sun Dec 08, 2002 4:04 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: 3DMark 2001 SE
Replies: 3
Views: 5227

Depends what's in the system. My VP6 with two 700s@933 and a Radeon 32DDR (pre 7200) gets about 4000 with some tweaking. The game box gets 17000, but then it has a p4 2.26 @ 2.8 and a Radeon 9700.
by Snugglebear
Sun Dec 08, 2002 1:57 pm
Forum: Overclocking / CPU Database
Topic: CPU problem... 2 X 566 mhz celeron wont work
Replies: 4
Views: 4089

Provided you're using coppermine P3s, not coppermine celerons, nor tualatin P3s, nor tualatin celerons, you can run SMP with Neos. However, you will need to do a few mods. One trace on the neos themselves needs cutting, and then a pin or two on the actual bp6 sockets need to be rewired. Just find Yo...
by Snugglebear
Sat Dec 07, 2002 11:36 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: Windows2000 format???????
Replies: 15
Views: 17920

It's far easier just to grab your drive mfg's utility disk (all of them have one on their website) and either zero the drive or wipe the partition table. Not exactly sure why win2k is being a pain with the delete, but the wipe utils will eliminate the data.
by Snugglebear
Sat Dec 07, 2002 12:59 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: multiple problems installing 2K
Replies: 15
Views: 18590

Need more setup information, especially bios settings for MPS, ACPI, and PNP OS. As for disabling the HPT366, you can't. IDE2 is actually the second ATA33 controller, IDE1 is the first ATA33 controller, and by controller I mean channel with corresponding plug on motherboard. Disabling both saves IRQ...
by Snugglebear
Sat Dec 07, 2002 12:55 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: My plexwriter won't work on HPT366
Replies: 2
Views: 2843

Read the manual. Optical drives do not play nice with the HPT.
by Snugglebear
Sat Dec 07, 2002 1:15 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What is faster? 366@550 or 500@600?
Replies: 9
Views: 7682

For many things a 20mhz bus increase won't do much (i.e. MS Word, Access, a few newer games, etc.). However, when any app is dealing with a large dataset such as in video encoding, you want as fast a bus speed as possible. As simply as I can put it, x86 processor caches are designed for small, deskt...
by Snugglebear
Sat Dec 07, 2002 1:04 am
Forum: Software
Topic: Cpu's running at 50%?
Replies: 6
Views: 4911

RU is pretty much the latest stable release. A hacked RU would also probably deal with the issue.
by Snugglebear
Fri Dec 06, 2002 1:47 am
Forum: Software
Topic: System only reads 256MB RAM when 512MB installed
Replies: 1
Views: 2350

Pull one stick out, leave the other in the first DIMM slot. If the bios detects 128MB of memory, 99.9% you have high density RAM. Older boards like the BP6 cannot fully use HD memory, so you'll need to find low density stuff if you want all 512MB to be useful (essentially they're only wired to see h...
by Snugglebear
Thu Dec 05, 2002 4:29 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: OCing produces DEAD DRIVE?
Replies: 7
Views: 6667

Re: OCing produces DEAD DRIVE?

I think it is possible that your drive might be damaged by a high PCI-Bus speed, but I don´t believe it. Are your sure your BIOS has detected that drive correctly before? Try a standard BIOS or plug the drive into some other system. Maybe that´ll help you guess what´s going on... good luck! Best re...
by Snugglebear
Thu Dec 05, 2002 4:21 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: Weirdo IRQ problems with early rev mobo
Replies: 14
Views: 8235

^^^^ Very good advice. HPTs hate me, I hate them. Went back to the standard 440BX IDE controllers but even then I had issues after hacking the board for dual P3s. Dropped in an old Adaptec 2940U2W, a SCSI DVD and a 10k rpm drive and problems vanished. SCSI speeds up I/O significantly, so the machine...
by Snugglebear
Thu Dec 05, 2002 4:14 pm
Forum: Software
Topic: Won't boot from CD/Floppy
Replies: 4
Views: 3052

Just about any CDROM built in the past 4-6 years supports bootable CDs. Do the CDs and diskettes work in other machines? Your bios boot order set correctly?
by Snugglebear
Thu Dec 05, 2002 4:11 pm
Forum: Overclocking / CPU Database
Topic: HELP! my BP6 has lost it's mind!
Replies: 3
Views: 4154

Doubtful this was a virus. Just reset the CMOS (use the jumper or pull the battery for a minute or two while the computer is unplugged from the wall) and then enter all the settings again. Machines just do this sometimes... don't ask me why.
by Snugglebear
Thu Dec 05, 2002 4:07 pm
Forum: Overclocking / CPU Database
Topic: CPU fan headers not working.
Replies: 1
Views: 3273

Watercooling is mostly done to overclock the chips to severely high levels. The water holds much more heat than does air, so it's much more efficient at cooling processors, even down to below ambient-levels (in conjunction with a TEC). Anyway, there are two things that come to mind here. The first i...
by Snugglebear
Thu Dec 05, 2002 4:03 pm
Forum: Overclocking / CPU Database
Topic: CPU problem... 2 X 566 mhz celeron wont work
Replies: 4
Views: 4089

The celeron 566 is a coppermine-based celeron. Those will not run in SMP mode no matter how much you hack things, as the SMP circuitry has been disabled on the die at the factory. The 566 also is in a FCPGA form factor and uses much less voltage. The BP6 can produce the right voltage levels, but sti...
by Snugglebear
Thu Dec 05, 2002 3:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: BP6 won't stay on with memory installed
Replies: 9
Views: 6252

If you guys can't get some combo of components working I'd suggest taking the board out of the case and running it while on top of a piece of cardboard. The BP6 is notorious for having the row of system switch/LED headers right above where many cases have a mounting bracket (either an extendor or me...
by Snugglebear
Thu Dec 05, 2002 3:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: auto shutdown not working getting "it is safe to turn o
Replies: 1
Views: 2242

If you want to start over at this point do the following: 1 ) Use RU bios with HPT 1.25 2 ) make sure your bios is set to what it said in that post 3 ) do not preformat the drive with a win9x bootdisk 4 ) make sure the drive is on the HPT, if that's where you want it, and you're using an 80-conducto...
by Snugglebear
Mon Oct 28, 2002 6:53 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Problems with recognising Promise ULTRA100
Replies: 2
Views: 2980

Change the boot order to something like A,SCSI,C, and set SCSI to mean SCSI, not the HPT366. Otherwise it won't look to PCI controllers for boot devices. Secondly, be warned that PCI3 shares an IRQ with the HPT controller. It may be advisable to move it up to PCI2, but only do so if there are major ...
by Snugglebear
Mon Oct 28, 2002 6:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How many slots can be used
Replies: 4
Views: 5816

It also depends on what OS you use. Win2k/XP are much better with sharing than is the 9x series. UNIX is usually pretty good, though I've never had good experiences with linux (solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD have all done fine, though). BeOS had some issues, but that was a long time ago. The ...
by Snugglebear
Mon Oct 28, 2002 6:42 pm
Forum: Overclocking / CPU Database
Topic: Problems after P3 mod....
Replies: 4
Views: 4505

Abit probably has a few spares lying around as well. You might also want to invest in a good EEPROM flasher for your own use as well; helps when shit->fan.
by Snugglebear
Mon Oct 28, 2002 6:39 pm
Forum: Overclocking / CPU Database
Topic: Yochiro's method on modifying BP6 for P3
Replies: 9
Views: 9070

Depends what revision of the bp6 you have. Can't remember what mine is, and the file with the info is 600 miles away on a server that's offline. Anyway, I *think* it was a 1.1 that only had a 100uF cap at EC10. After replacing that one and resoldering the two pins on the sockets the thing was cherry...
by Snugglebear
Thu Oct 24, 2002 10:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: celeron 1 question
Replies: 3
Views: 3026

Celeron 1s? If you mean mendocino core celerons, it doesn't support them at all. If you mean coppermine celerons, it supports 1.
by Snugglebear
Wed Oct 16, 2002 5:12 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: EC10 mod
Replies: 7
Views: 5543

Check your components anyway, even if you have a "safe" board.
by Snugglebear
Fri Oct 11, 2002 4:23 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Creative
Replies: 5
Views: 8290

What problem do their drivers give on SMP systems? I had SB Live! 4.1 value edition on WinXP Pro with SMP & working ok. Then again, I was only using the M-S XP drivers, not Creative's. I also had to retire my Creative DVD decoder card CT7610, because of no WinXP driver support. Constant BSODs until...
by Snugglebear
Fri Oct 11, 2002 4:20 am
Forum: Overclocking / CPU Database
Topic: Is PIII mod worthwhile??
Replies: 3
Views: 4618

If it won't cost you anything significant, it's a fun thing to do. I upgraded my bp6 to two 850s last year. Still use it as a FreeBSD workstation for OpenGL development. It's actually the most pleased I've ever been with the board, since now it's stable.