Re: [newbie] Questions about some BIOS settings....

2002-04-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Femme wrote: AFAIK they should be OFF. Apparently they are holdovers from DOS days when it was necessary to cache some parts of memory b/c DOS couldn't do it efficiently enough. For now, I believe all windows versions don't use or reference the bios at all. I presume linux is the

Re: [newbie] Questions about some BIOS settings....

2002-04-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Tom Brinkman wrote: Google 'bios settings', you'll get plenty of links with explainations. For more concise/appropriate explaination, go to your motherboard's web page, your bios' web page, or screen by screen descriptions are probly also in your mobo's manual. Normally you

[newbie] Questions about some BIOS settings....

2002-04-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Hey all. Just wondering, should video ram and BIOS be so that they are cached or or not? I've always had them turned off, but recently turned them on. Its the only thing I changed (besides my new HD) when I had all the troubles with my Nvidia drivers. Thanks much! --

Re: [newbie] Questions about some BIOS settings....

2002-04-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 01 April 2002 08:10 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hey all. Just wondering, should video ram and BIOS be so that they are cached or or not? I've always had them turned off, but recently turned them on. Its the only thing I changed (besides my new HD) when I had all the troubles with my

Re: [newbie] Questions about some BIOS settings....

2002-04-02 Thread Femme
On Monday 01 April 2002 07:10 pm, you wrote: Hey all. Just wondering, should video ram and BIOS be so that they are cached or or not? I've always had them turned off, but recently turned them on. Its the only thing I changed (besides my new HD) when I had all the troubles with my Nvidia