Diehard Pentium 54Classic user needs BIOS help: PC100 busspeednot available with AmiBIOS v8.14 - 10ns SDRAM speed is lowest

wrote:

But to get the best out of it I need to increase the bus speed (now running
very stable on 66.6 x 3) for I am turning this system into a LAN-server with
4x 20GB IBM hard drives -- but without increasing the bus speed it kanda
slows down pretty fast.

Doubtful that it will do the job even if you can make it run faster.

Please advise.

I usually hate the following kind of impertinent response, but gosh ...

* Biostar M7VIG Pro Mobo Retail -- $57 shipped -- from newegg.com.
* AMD XP 2000+/266 FSB w/ heatsink and fan -- $67 shipped -- from newegg.
* Antec 400W Power Supply -- $67 shipped -- from newegg.
* KByte 256MB PC2100 DDR RAM -- free after rebate at OfficeMax now. Two
weeks back they had the same deal on Kingston.

More at techbargains.com.

So for under $200 you get something about ten times as fast that will
last you another six years. You can afford ten cents a day. You might
want to spend more for a different mobo you can tweak. Newegg has a
good Maxtop case for $38 shipped if you need one.

But you might have to wait five years or so until you can talk about how
you are squeezing every last bit of performance out of your old
computer. Until then you can brag about how little you paid ...

wrote:
Hi there,

I hope you are able to help me or give me some pointers.
I am one of those diehards who refuse to upgrade their systems every two
years to the latest GHz CPUs or flashy mother boards just to make
manufacturers happy. I am very happy with my usually fast enough, 6 year old
system with:

- Genuine Intel Pentium 54C 200MHz (still rocks after seven years of use)
- 128MB PC133 - 7.5ns Extended memory.
- SiS6326 (PC Chips) M570 chipset-motherboard [HSING TECH ENTERPRISE CO.,
LTD] - 4 years old.
- AMI BIOS version 8.14 - 1995 [it displays at first boot screen: updated
08/14/1998S which is kinda confusing]
- My board identity is: 51-0814-001437-00101111-071595-570.
- PC100 compatible for bus speeds 33.3 up to 100MHz

But to get the best out of it I need to increase the bus speed (now running
very stable on 66.6 x 3) for I am turning this system into a LAN-server with
4x 20GB IBM hard drives -- but without increasing the bus speed it kanda
slows down pretty fast.

I am having trouble to set the bus speed to 100MHz x 2 or anything above 75
x 2. (it generally crashes before any of my Win95/98/98SE/ME has even come
through it's startup procedure and plenty writefailures/systemhangs under
any version of DOS too. And SuSeLinux 6.0 won't pass much further then the
lilo choice).

The m570 doesn't support a 100 MHz bus. It only supports 60, 66, 75, and
83 and the PCI bus will be overclocked with any of them over 66MHz. At
83 MHz the PCI bus is going to be seriously out of whack.

Btw, the on board sound on those old PCChips socket 7 motherboards
usually kicks the bucket at 83 MHz too.


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