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Re: Socket-A AMD Athlon/Sempron system

HLT slowing the HDD. That's a new weirdness. Maybe an ACPI quirk with that board? Another possible cause is problems with APIC (that's not ACPI). I had problems similar to yours with SBLive on a nForce2 mobo when APIC was enabled. APIC allows for many more IRQs than the standard PIC. Sometimes it …

Re: Introduction.

Your kind is not welcome here. 😠 😠 😠 😠 🤣. jk. Welcome to the nut house. He we primarily sit around trying to make '90s hardware work almost as well as it didn't when it was new! Padded room recommended.

Re: Socket-A AMD Athlon/Sempron system

Yeah there's not much point in installing drivers for PATA controllers that work as generic IDE hardware. Regardless of manufacturer. I've never seen an improvement in performance. On the other hand, I have definitely found problems with 3rd party IDE drivers. Regarding VIA performance though see: …

Re: Socket-A AMD Athlon/Sempron system

I was looking over some old mobo reviews awhile ago and discovered that VIA disk controllers basically suck. It's something that I've suspected for years and looking up review numbers showed it to be very true. If that mobo has a separate IDE RAID controller, try it instead. The Highpoint chips are …

ASUS Deluxe GeForce 256

:D It's an ASUS AGP-V6600 Deluxe 32MB SDR AGP. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/asus-agp,153.html http://img.tomshardware.com/us/1999/12/21/asus_agp/v6600.jpg I stumbled on this auction the other day. $9 shipping included to US folks. I'd been wanting to add a GF256 to the collection for awhile …

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