Reply 120 of 137, by _StIwY_
Kittyboy wrote on 2025-05-25, 16:47:I am working out a few things, primarily, when I perform a cold power boot with power disconnected overnight, it will boot into the BIOS (see image). This may be because currently I'm running a dual boot setup, MS-DOS 6.22/Win98se?
Did you downgrade the BIOS to the last stable ? Anyway i will test this behaviou aswell, i usually do not turn off the PSU
Standard Def Steve wrote on 2025-05-25, 17:46:Oh man, I too was thrown off by that 'CPU DRAM back to back transaction' thing when I had my TUV4X.
I could only get that setting to work @ 133MHz FSB with Coppermine CPUs. With Tualatin, it'd only boot at 100MHz.Based on the brief description of what the setting does, and the fact that Tualatin has a data prefetcher (Coppermine doesn't) I'd wager that Tualatin @ FSB133 is simply too demanding on the memory controller.
Ahahah well..... I used a Coppermine indeed to test the motherboard, and everything went well, then i put the motherboard into a box waiting for other items to complete the build.
One of those was the Tualatin..and i couldn't figure out why the motherboard was behaving weird after the installation, so i was starting to think the CPU Tualatin was the problem, and that was driving me crazy. But 99,9% of the time if a CPU is damaged the PC don't even start...that was driving me crazy