motherboard settings w/G400

[chip]

anyone know what are best settings for bios on mvp3 boards and g400?

[Rags]

http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum5/HTML/004311.html

Rags



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That's your wife on the back of my horse!!

[chip]

hey rags-that is for g200-me have g400-same deal?

[chip]

oh-and i have k63@450 and motherboard has 1meg cache-if this makes a diffrence.

[Rags]

yup, except you will probably be able to use turbo mode on your install.

Rags



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That's your wife on the back of my horse!!

[chip]

thanks for the quick reply rags!

[EchoWars]

Interestingly enough...VIA says to install the vid card drivers FIRST, then install the 4-in-1 pack. I have done it both ways with my Epox MV3PG-M, seems to make no difference...runs fine both ways with my G200.

[Rags]

I have experimented a lot with the G200 and several MVP3 boards, and have found that with Matrox cards, the chipset drivers should come before the vid card drivers. I think the reason VIA wants the card's drivers first is so you can boot into windows and see everything. I just know that the order you install them is related to the stability of the installation. I can't give an explanation, it just works, for your Matrox AGP cards, install the MB patches first, then the video drivers.

Rags



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That's your wife on the back of my horse!!

[Ron]

Chip
If you're interested, I posted the link for the latest VIA 4-in-1 patch, ver 4.12, in the General Hardware forum. If the link is down, e-mail and I'll attach it to the reply.
Ron

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Ron. BH6 etc.

[chip]

hey-thanks but i have it.i keep up with my boards software.got this g400 runnin like a raped ape!!it is runnin 2x mode,sideband-the whole nine yards!no crashing anymore-solid as a rock.half-life looks way awesome,fast and smooth.carmageddon2 is much faster than on my previous banshee card.gonna try motoracer next for d3d.

[Rags]

Them raped apes can sure scoot, can't they?