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Intel DX4 100 WB or not?

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Reply 20 of 27, by TheMobRules

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By "no boot" I guess you mean the system passes POST but hangs before booting the OS? Since it looks like you can access the BIOS to set L1/L2.

In that case you can try to disable "DRAM Write Burst" in the BIOS chipset options. I've found that setting does not work well when L1 is set to WB.

Reply 21 of 27, by Jackhead

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tryed but dont help.
L1 enabled , L2 disabled system boot fine. I benched the cpu, looks ok. Also run doom for 15min no crash.

But i had to set JP20 3-4 to get the CPU in WB mode. If i remove that jumper, like the sheet say, CPU is in WT mode..

edit: found this picture from a rev 1.5 with SK096 and the settings also work for me on 2.0! L1/L2 WB now, no crashs so far.

https://imgur.com/vTZcTDE

Bench:

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Dos 6.22: Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 Rev 2.0 1Mb L2 - A5x86 X5 P75 - 64MB - AHA-2842A VLB - ET4000W32P VLB - CT2230 - GUS ACE - MPU-401AT with YucatanFX
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Reply 22 of 27, by Disruptor

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Can you run ctcm from heise / c't too please?

PS.
It seems you lost a lot of memory write speed.

Reply 23 of 27, by Jackhead

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Here

Dos 6.22: Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 Rev 2.0 1Mb L2 - A5x86 X5 P75 - 64MB - AHA-2842A VLB - ET4000W32P VLB - CT2230 - GUS ACE - MPU-401AT with YucatanFX
Win98SE: Asus P5K-WS - E8600 @ 4,5GHz - Strange God Voodoo 5 6000 PCI-X - 2GB DDR2 1066 - Audigy 2 ZS

Reply 24 of 27, by Disruptor

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I'm just puzzling why you have a (blue) write line of ~ 60 MB/s here in this post:

Jackhead wrote on 2024-08-26, 16:50:
Here the result, normal for the DX4 ? […]
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Here the result, normal for the DX4 ?

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and here with slowest hardware settings. Really slow 😀 I think that could be 386/33 range.

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and here:

Jackhead wrote on 2024-08-28, 16:01:
Here the Bench with P24CT jumped […]
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Here the Bench with P24CT jumped

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You can notice that the CPU name has changed, and the L1 cache is slower. 1point more on cpu bench.
L1 is in WT mode, but jumped to WB and bios is also set to WB.
Wonder what jumper is needed to get WB. As i say JP21 is jumped 3-4.

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-- but --
here it is at ~ 40 MB/s:

Jackhead wrote on 2024-08-30, 15:53:
tryed but dont help. L1 enabled , L2 disabled system boot fine. I benched the cpu, looks ok. Also run doom for 15min no crash. […]
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tryed but dont help.
L1 enabled , L2 disabled system boot fine. I benched the cpu, looks ok. Also run doom for 15min no crash.

But i had to set JP20 3-4 to get the CPU in WB mode. If i remove that jumper, like the sheet say, CPU is in WT mode..

edit: found this picture from a rev 1.5 with SK096 and the settings also work for me on 2.0! L1/L2 WB now, no crashs so far.

https://imgur.com/vTZcTDE

Bench:

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Reply 25 of 27, by Jackhead

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I see, but with 60MB/s it was not really stable.
ATM its really solid so i take that slower write.
Well its for sure some other jumper setup working faster, but ok..

Dos 6.22: Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 Rev 2.0 1Mb L2 - A5x86 X5 P75 - 64MB - AHA-2842A VLB - ET4000W32P VLB - CT2230 - GUS ACE - MPU-401AT with YucatanFX
Win98SE: Asus P5K-WS - E8600 @ 4,5GHz - Strange God Voodoo 5 6000 PCI-X - 2GB DDR2 1066 - Audigy 2 ZS

Reply 26 of 27, by Eimer

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Hey, I got the same board, same CPU, same problem.
What configuration did you end up with??

Reply 27 of 27, by Jackhead

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I end up using the P75 AMD CPU again.

Dos 6.22: Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 Rev 2.0 1Mb L2 - A5x86 X5 P75 - 64MB - AHA-2842A VLB - ET4000W32P VLB - CT2230 - GUS ACE - MPU-401AT with YucatanFX
Win98SE: Asus P5K-WS - E8600 @ 4,5GHz - Strange God Voodoo 5 6000 PCI-X - 2GB DDR2 1066 - Audigy 2 ZS