It's one of those things where everyone seemed to think that the standard was so important that they ought to have their own version of it. Personally, I think COAST ought to stand for Cache Only Apocryphal on the Stupid Things... you can see it, but getting it working on a given board is a crap …

As a quick check, of course, removing the TAG ram DIP from the motherboard did not help.

Hi - I'm hoping someone has some good advice about COASt module compatibility on an old Shuttle HOT-553 socket 7 build. Motherboard comes with 256k L2 cache on board, and has a "CLEP" socket (manual calls it this) for a 256k upgrade. Went to ebay to find one of these COASt modules, score, change …

Looks like you might need one without additional TAG - this is a rough translation from a Chinese FAQ page on the old Spacewalker site. Seems to refer to it as " Haoxin Quick Access Memory Module with only two 128KB chips " https://web.archive.org/web/19991008101013/http://www.spacewalker.com:80/ …

Hi - I'm hoping someone has some good advice about COASt module compatibility on an old Shuttle HOT-553 socket 7 build. Motherboard comes with 256k L2 cache on board, and has a "CLEP" socket (manual calls it this) for a 256k upgrade. Went to ebay to find one of these COASt modules, score, change …

Yea, I had seen the 3.1 bios posted elsewhere. I tried this on one card, but the flash did not work and made the card inoperable. After killing the card, I read that the bios should not be flashed to 3.1 on OEM cards. Lo and belohd, the card I was flashing had a sticker that said "Dell" on it. My …

Thanks Joey_sw. I can't find whether LBA is supported; there is neither an indication of LBA status on the Adaptec 2940U2W utility (v 2.57) nor on the motherboard bios. Also could not find any option for LBA on a Biostar 8433UUD bios. I do believe the problem has to do with addressable limits …

Greetings Vogons members: My first post. I have been inspired by the world's fastest 486 to build my own rocketed-up socket3 machine. I have acquired various parts pieces and trying to dust off my memory of how all these things go together. Right now I am having difficulty formatting my hard drive. …