Dear Mr.Kingsly,
Thanks for your advise. I will buy a Yamaha
sound card as you said and compile support for it in the kernel. If the
card costs around Rs.700(<Rs.1000) I will buy that itself. Please let me
know the exact model.
You are right about the PCI bus
overclocking. The BIOS setting runs it at 41MHz instead of the default
33MHz. However I am not overclocking the CPU. That is I am not running a
rated 800MHz cpu at a higher speed. Since my motherboard does not
support the 133MHz FSB of the CPU- it recognises it as a PIII 600 MHz
at 100/100/33 ) I have to change the BIOS setting to 124/124/41 which is
the maximum to get it anywhere near the real CPU rating. At this setting
it recognises it as a PIII 744. I am noticing a big leap in performance
which is to be expected. However regarding the audio - Even the BIOS
fails to recognise it when the system BIOS boot screen is shown -
Therefore How can the OS recognise it ? Predictably the audio drivers
fail to load showing the [FAILED] message. Windows does not recognise it
either. Another thing is If I bring the PCI bus speed to(37Mhz)
112/112/37 the onboard audio is recognised but the CPU is recognised as
a PIII 672 and is perceptibly slower in performance. Anything over that
PCI speed,the "Multimedia controller" is not recognised. So I guess a
new kernel will not solve the problem.
So there is no problem with the CPU. Only
the PCI bus speed of 41MHz is an issue. The network card is functioning
very well even at this speed. In fact I am able to do heavy X sessions
from other machines. I hope the Sound card will also support this high
PCI Speed.
Another thing is if the PCI Bus does fry
the other components at high speeds why should the Motherboard
manufacturer(This is true of several manufacturers) provide a setting
that allows such high speeds to be tried out ? I guess it should be
precisely for my type of case where I have a overrated CPU running on an
underrated motherboard.
The good news/bottomline is that I am
into my third day with this setting and without problems. Only time will
tell.
Thanks for your reply and have a good day.
G.Sriram,
Trichy.
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|P.S: Actually I am not overclocking my CPU in the real sense . I have a
|PIII 800 MHz 133 FSB CPU but an i810 board which supports only 66MHz
|and 100MHz FSB's. But fortunately through the BIOS you can stretch the
|FSB to 124MHz.
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**Can someone on the list throw some light on how safe/dangerous a thing
**this is ?? IMO ... when you overclock your CPU ... chances are it'd burn
**up... but what happens in this case ?? any device on the PCI bus could
fry??
**Would this include hard disks ?? (after all the ide is on the PCI bus)
| The good news is that it works pretty well save for the
|audio. In the process I have got the bogomips up by a good 220 units and
|/sbin/hdparm shoot up(136.17/24.13). My kernel is 2.4.3.The motherboard
|is a Priya i810E. Another interesting fact is that this beats a Mercury
|i180FST 133FSB by quite a margin.
The newer 2.4.x kernels have better support for i810 sound... maybe you'll
be able to get it to work using the latest kernel.
Kingsly
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