P4P800-E Deluxe: BIOS Chipset settings

[Peter Wagner]

Op Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:11:25 +0200 schreef Peter Wagner:

Wim

Thank you for your answer.

OK, so your memory does work in dual channel mode.
Mine says 'enabled' - so it is possible

I can't find any information on what this is supposed to mean, but I
suspect it shows whether hyperpath is enabled (also called Performance
Acceleration Technology or PAT). This is a feature of the Intel 875
chipset, which squeezes just a bit more performance out of the
memory. The P4P800-E uses the slightly cheaper 865 chipset, which
officially doesn't have this feature. Unofficially, it's still there
though. Intel just disabled it - but Asus found a way to switch it
back on. They're not allowed to call it Performance Acceleration
Technology, so they call it Memory Acceleration Technology (or MAM)
instead.

MAM is disabled by default. Look for Memory Acceleration Technology
or MAM under the advanced chipset-settings in the BIOS. This can be
set to Auto (which means disabled!) or Enabled. Again, if you switch
it on, I'd recommend running memtest86 for a while - you're squeezing
more performance out of the memory and it might not like that.. It's
on on my system though and I've never had a problem with it.

Thank you for this hint!
I've switched to 'Enabled' too.
I'll running memtest86 for a while.

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I think you should be able to select ACPI Pc in Device Manager, go to
the Device driver tab, select Update driver and select the right HAL
(ACPI Multiprocessor). Windows should do the rest.

Unfortunately no. :-(
I've tried it a few days ago.
The only display option is 'Standard-PC'. :-(
Searching on the WinXP-Setup-CD doesn't helps. No drivers found.

Still, if I were
you, I'd wait and see if you get an answer to your new post from
someone who has actually done this - this is something you want to do
right the first time, as you can probably totally screw up Windows
with this if you get it wrong ;-(

Yes, I think there's a way by coping the correct DLL(s) and renames it.
To screw up WinXP is possible.
But I've got a copy of Ghost. ;-)

Good luck!

Wim

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