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Peer Concurrency - Enabled

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Concurrent PCI Host - Enabled

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PCI Streaming - Enabled

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VGA Palette Snoop - Disabled

The following settings are recommended in particular for the ASUS KT7E motherboard, with all other

settings set to the highest speed settings. These settings may also prevent lockups in other motherboards:

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4K Page DRAM addressing - Off

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DRAM Driving Force - Lo

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Dram Latch Delay - Auto

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If you have a line in your CONFIG.SYS file mentioning the UMB386.SYS memory manager, try

removing this line.

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Try installing the latest BIOS update for your motherboard. In particular this will help with the Soyo

6VCA motherboard (use BIOS version 2AA5 or later), and Compaq motherboards. You can get help

with finding out what BIOS you need and instructions as to how to flash it at Wim's BIOS page, or your

motherboard manufacturer's website.

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Try installing the latest Video BIOS update for your GeForce. You could also try using an NVIDIA

reference BIOS (if you are feeling brave): see the 'Where can I get the latest NVIDIA Flash BIOS and

which should I use?' question.

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Make sure that old drivers are cleaned out by using the method described in the question: 'How can I

completely uninstall old NVIDIA GeForce or Creative Labs Annihilator drivers?'.

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If you are using CAS3 memory at CAS2 or in any other way running memory over specifications, try

resetting it back to defaults. This setting may also be called 'Memory Timing' in your BIOS - set it to the

highest nanoseconds setting. You might also want to try using each of your memory sticks on its own in

turn and see if it is an issue with one particular memory stick - sometimes poor quality memory only

causes problems when you have a high performance AGP card.

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Try installing the Intel chipset drivers from:

http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/driver.htm

for

all

versions of Windows 9x/ME.

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If you have an Athlon processor and you are running Windows 2000, read the following article in

Microsoft's Knowledge Base:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q270/7/15.ASP

There is an easy to use registry file available on AMD's website:

http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon-duron/amd_win2k_patch.html

However, note that performing this step may reduce performance. If it causes problems with PowerStrip,

try upgrading to the latest version of PowerStrip.

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If you have a VIA chipset based motherboard and you are running Windows 2000, read the '

I have a VIA

chipset based motherboard and I can't get AGP working or I get lockups in Windows 2000. How can I fix

it?' question.

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If you are using a SoundBlaster Live! soundcard, make sure that you have reserved IRQ 5 for the

SoundBlaster 16 emulation in your system's BIOS - set IRQ 5 to 'Reserved for Legacy (or ISA) Device'

in the 'PCI/PNP IRQ Resource Exclusion' section - your BIOS may use different wording.

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If you have a 'PCI Latency Timing', 'CPU-to-PCI Bridge latency' or similar setting in your BIOS, try

setting it to 0, or raising it to 64 (the usual setting is 32). This may help in particular on VIA KX133

based motherboards.

If you do not have this option in your BIOS, and you have a VIA MVP3 chipset based motherboard, try

putting the following program in your startup folder. It sets the CPU

PCI Bridge latency timer to 0.

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