BIOS settings correct?

[Abraham1885]

Hi,

I am trying to make one computer from two broken ones and old parts.
Multiboot Windows98SE and WindowsXP SP3.
Problem I have it still sometimes hangs, once a day.

MY main question is are my bios settings correct?
Bios settings I typed at the end.

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What I did so far:

Flashed its bios because it didn't support Int 13h Extensions.
Windows XP I wanted to install after the first 8GB of harddisc space.

Further I changed the 235W powersupply with a 350W powersupply.
That helped a little.

I checked the memory with memtest86+-4.10.floppy.zip
Removed the broken sdram chips now 512 MB remains.
Memory now doesn't give any errors, probably ok.
Helped much but still not solved.

One floppy drive 1.44MB didn't read the boot sector
Replaced it by other second hand.

Replaced the ergonmic designed Alps keyboard.
Some of the bottuns where hanging.
Pre programmed buttons sometimes caused Ms Outlook to start in the middle of nowhere.
Replaced with old mechanical switched board connected with a ps/2 converter.


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System description:

Motherbord Asus P2B-S. Intell Pentium2 350Mhz
Memory 2x sdram 3.3V PC100 256MB total=512MB (Kingston)

Harddisc 160 GB (IDE) Seagate ST3160815A (Barracuda 7200.10) (new)
Connected with a 80 wire IDE cable on the first IDE connector.
Device manager in XP: Enabled write caching on the disk,

CDROM Sony CD R/RW CRX140E
Connected with a 40 wire IDE cable on the second IDE connector.
Connected with the first connector on the cable.
(Some players otherwise will not boot, this one does).
Device manager XP: Enabled write caching on the disk,

Floppy drive 3.5 inch, 1.44MB

AGP Grahical card Aopen Aeolus, Geforce4 MX440
(64MB 5ns DDR memory and 270Mhz Core clock)
In XP shows as AOpen Geforce MX 440 Windows Xp/2k Driver v 28.32
That is newer as the driver that came with the card.

I added 2 aditional USB ports with a PCI card Sitecom CN-008.
(the system still now unfortunatly only has USB 1.1).

Sound card PCI Intergra TT801 T
Ethernet card: 3C905C-TX
USB scanner: Medion MD 6190
Keyboard: Standard 101/102-keyboard ps/2.
Mouse: Logitech track ball.
Monitor Plug and play.


(No SCSI devices attached.)

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MENU STANDARD CMOS SETUP
Primary master: Size 8447, Cycls 1027, Head 255, Precomp 0, landz 16382 Sector 63, LBA
Secondary master: Auto

MENU BIOS FEATURES SETUP
Boot virus detection: Disabled
CPU level1 cache: enabled
CPU level2 cache: enabled
CPU level2 cahce ECC check: disabled
BIOS Update: enabled
Quick power on Self test: disabled
HDD boot Sequensce SSCI/IDE first: IDE
Boot sequence: A, CDROM, C
Boot up floppy seek: disabled
Floppy disk access control: R/W
IDE HDD Block Mode Sectors: disabled
HDD S.M.A.R.T. capaility: disabled
ps/2 Mouse Function Control: Auto
OS/2 Onboard Memory >64M : Disabled
PCI/VGA Palette Snoop: disabled
Video ROM BIOS Shadow : Enabled
c8000 CBFFF Shadow: disabled
CC000 CFFFF Shadow: disabled
D0000 d3FFF Shadow: disabled
D4000 D7FFF Shadow: disabled
d8000 DbFFF Shadow: disabled
DC000 DFFFF Shadow: Disabled
Boot up Numlock status: On
Typematic Rate Disabled
..
..
Security options Setup

MENU CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP
SDRAM Configuration: by SPD
SDRAM CAS Latency : 2T
SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay: 2T
SDRAM RAS Precharge Time: 2T
Dram Idle timer: 8T
SDRAM MA Wait State: Normal
Snoop Ahead: Enabled
Host Bus Fast Data Ready: Disabled
16 bit I/O recovery time 4 busclk
8 bit I/O recovery time 8 busclk
Graphical Aperture Size: 64MB
Video memory Cache Mode: UC
PCI 2.1 support: Enabled
Memory hole at 15M-16M: disabled
Dram are 64 not (72) bits wide
Data Integrity mode: non-ECC
Onboard FDC Controller: Enabled
Onboard FDC Swap A&B: No Swap
Onboard Serial Port 1: 3f8h/irq4
Onboard Serial port 2: 2f8h/irq3
Onboard Parallel Port: 378h/irq7
Parallel Port Mode: ECP+EPP
ECP DMA Select: 3
UART2 Use Infrared: Disabled
Onboard PCI IDE Enabled: both
IDE Ultra DMA Mode: Auto
IDE0 Master PIO/DMA Mode: Auto
IDE0 Slave PIO/DMA Mode: Auto
IDE1 Master PIO/DMA Mode: Auto
IDE1 Slave PIO/DMA Mode: Auto

MENU POWER MANAGMENT
Power managment: Disabled
...
PWR Button 4 secs: Soft Off
PWR Up on Modem ACT: enabled
..
..

PNP AND PCI SETUP
PNP OS Installed: No
Slot 1 IRQ: Auto
Slot 2 IRQ: Auto
Slot 3 IRQ: Auto
Slot 4 IRQ: Auto
PCI Latency timer: 0 PCI Clock

IRQ 3 USED BY ISA: No/ICU
IRQ 4 USED BY ISA: No/ICU
IRQ 5 USED BY ISA: No/ICU
IRQ 6 USED BY ISA: No/ICU
IRQ 7 USED BY ISA: No/ICU
IRQ 8 USED BY ISA: No/ICU
IRQ 9 USED BY ISA: No/ICU
IRQ 10 USED BY ISA: No/ICU
IRQ 11 USED BY ISA: No/ICU
IRQ 12 USED BY ISA: No/ICU
IRQ 13 USED BY ISA: No/ICU
IRQ 14 USED BY ISA: No/ICU
IRQ 15 USED BY ISA: No/ICU

DMA 1 Used By ISA: NO/ICU
DMA 2 Used By ISA: NO/ICU
DMA 3 Used By ISA: NO/ICU

ISA MEM Block BASE: NO/ICU

Onboard AHA BIOS: Auto
ONB AHA BIOS First: No
ONB SCSI SE Term.: Enabled
ONB SCSI LVD Term.: Enabled
USB IRQ : disabled
VGA BIOS Sequence : PCI/AGP


Thanks and regards

 

[Abraham1885]

CPU level2 cahce ECC check: disabled
set to enabled

Quick power on Self test: disabled
Set to enabled otherwise memory test at startup will loop forever

Video ROM BIOS Shadow : Enabled
Think changed to disabled
Not needed with a modern card.
Running video card bios in normal memory will delay performance
and decrease stability.

Seagate testing did with software downloaded from seagate.
Made a bootable disk to test.
Seagate drive seems to be fine.


(It only has 512 MB ram)
Some memory was broken (tested with software)
But that allone not solved it.
But stability improved.

Set windows (in XP) to determine swapfile size itself.
It was set to minumum and a maximum size.
That also helped.
Possible that running out of swap file suddenly causing a problem.

That it is so far

 

[genta3d]

What error code is show up ?
Like 0x000000C2 or so, you can try to google it...