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Article #3605CMOS Setup Questions?
From: francis
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 20:17
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 20:17
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In the AMI BIOS SETUP PROGRAM - ADVANCED CHIPSET SETUP, please explain what these configurable parameters are supposed to do on my 486DX/33MHz system: CURRENT PARAMETER OPTIONS SETTING ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DMA Address/Data Hold Time 1-2T, 2-3T 1-2T AT BUS Clock Select CPUCLK/2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 CPUCLK/4 I/O Recovery Time Delay 2, 4, 8, 12BCLK 4BCLK Cache Read Hit Burst 2-1-1-1, 3-1-1-1, 3-2-2-2 3-2-2-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have figured out most of the other CMOS settings, but these are still somewhat elusive to me. I believe that AT BUS Clock Select affects the speed of the AT BUS by dividing the master clock frequency by the selected parameter, eg, a 33MHz system would have a BUS speed of 11MHz with an AT BUS Clock Select setting of CPUCLK/3. Is it adviseable to increase the AT BUS speed beyond the standard 8MHz? Any advice, anecdotes and other pertinent information would be greatly appreciated. As a final query, is it adviseable to enable memory remapping if my system has more than 1Mb of RAM? I have 4Mb. My crappy manual says "no", but does not explain why. I have enabled it and acquired an additional 256kb of extended memory. I assume that the other 128kb (384k-256k=128k) is in use as shadow ROM which is enabled also. I have experienced intermittent/random crashes at times and I am wondering if these are related to memory mapping? Thanks...Francis -- IMI URU LIVE & LET LIVE Francis Morley |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| FRANCIS@AC.DAL.CA MORLEY@UG.CS.DAL.CA ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!ac.dal.ca!francis From: francis@ac.dal.ca Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: CMOS Setup Questions? Message-ID: <1993Jan6.161729.9923@ac.dal.ca> Date: 6 Jan 93 16:17:29 -0400 Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Lines: 44